Twice failed presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stopped by MSNBC to speak with host Rachel Maddow about the latest Trump indictments out of Georgia. Clinton was blasted on social media for faking “profound sadness” about the state of our Democracy.
Meanwhile, Clinton and her campaign happily —eagerly —spread the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and then went on to claim the election was stolen from her.
Watch the Maddow clips below:
Hillary Clinton is laughing with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC pic.twitter.com/1oQ5H2Za1K
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Partial transcript below:
MADDOW: … watching things unfold in Georgia. She is the former Democratic presidential nominee…
(LAUGHTER)
MADDOW: … U.S. senator from New York and secretary of state.
I should tell you, she has a new essay out in “The Atlantic” on the well-being of Americans and our democracy. It’s called “The Weaponization of Loneliness.”
Madam Secretary, fancy meeting you here. It’s really nice to have you here.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D), FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: Oh, I can’t believe this.
(LAUGHTER)
MADDOW: Yes.
This is not the circumstances in which I expected to be talking to you.
CLINTON: Nor me, Rachel.
It’s always good to talk to you. But, honestly, I didn’t think that it would be under these circumstances, yet another set of indictments.
MADDOW: This is something — this becoming, like, a skill set.
CLINTON: Yes.
MADDOW: Like, in the news business, you say, like, oh, I have covered Olympics, or I have covered a campaign.
CLINTON: Yes.
MADDOW: Now it’s those of us who’ve covered four indictments. I don’t know if four is it. We don’t know if Donald Trump is among those indicted this evening, but all expectations are that he will be.
Do you feel satisfaction in that? You warned the country, essentially, that he was going to try to end democracy. But the most of the country didn’t believe you.
CLINTON: Well, it’s hard to believe.
I don’t feel any satisfaction. I feel great — just great, profound sadness that we have a former president who has been indicted for so many charges that went right to the heart of whether or not our democracy would survive.
And we don’t know yet what the charges coming out of Georgia are, but, if you stop and think about what the public evidence is — and you have been talking about some of that for the last hour — he set out to defraud the United States of America and the citizens of our nation. He used tactics of harassment, intimidation. He made threats.
He and his allies went after state officials, local officials responsible for conducting elections. Now we know they even went into voting machines in order to determine whether or not those voting machines had somehow been breached, when they were the ones actually doing the breaching.
So, there is a great deal already in the public record. We will wait to see what the indictments themselves say, because, clearly, this investigation has been very thorough.
But I don’t know that anybody should be satisfied. This is a terrible moment for our country to have a former president accused of these terribly important crimes.
The only satisfaction may be that the system is working, that all of the efforts by Donald Trump, his allies, and his enablers to try to silence the truth, to try to undermine democracy have been brought into the light, and justice is being pursued.
As a reminder, here are 20 minutes of Dems denying and questioning election results:
Over 20 minutes of Democrats denying and questioning election results.
Hillary et al. calling President Trump illegitimate. Zero indictments! pic.twitter.com/1SigsxtLYK
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