Hillary Clinton confessed Monday that she got ‘teary-eyed’ when former President Donald Trump got convicted in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
In a sit-down with Katie Couric at Washington, D.C.’s DAR Constitutional Hall, Clinton also hammered her ex-rival for blaming Democrats earlier Monday for the second attempt on his life.
Clinton is doing the rounds to promote her new book, Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty, which will be released Tuesday.
‘If he were really a leader, he should be doing what he can to calm the waters,’ Clinton said. ‘Not try to just continue to throw red meat out there to get people riled up.’
The former Democratic nominee was reacting to the assassination attempt and then Trump’s subsequent tweet in which he claimed ‘Comrade Kamala Harris’ and the ‘ridiculous lawsuits’ on the ex-president were responsible.
Hillary Clinton (left) kicked off her book tour Monday night at Washington, D.C.’s DAR Constitution Hall. The former Democratic presidential nominee was interviewed by Katie Couric (right)
Clinton is promoting her new book: Something lost, something gained
‘It was horror,’ Clinton told Couric when asked about Sunday’s incident at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club.
Couric then read out loud Trump’s mid-day tweet that included the statement, ‘Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!’
Clinton called it ‘incredible’ that Trump ‘would take what is a genuinely terrible event’ and then ‘turn it into a political attack on his opposition and literally clearly everybody else who doesn’t support him.’
‘Everything that he talks about is about himself,’ Clinton said. ‘And he doesn’t, in any way, try to reach out to people. He’s not interested in representing all of America and all of Americans.’
‘And this is just another really regrettable incident of that,’ the former secretary of State added.
Clinton also went after Elon Musk for his shocking post questioning why nobody had tried to assassinate President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.
‘Well let’s just all promise ourselves that we can have significant political differences about who we want to be our next president, about the policies that we think will help our country and the world and condemn that kind of rhetoric,’ she said.
Hillary Clinton (left) and Katie Courick (right) stand at the end of the interview. Clinton expressed anger that former President Donald Trump didn’t try to ‘calm the waters’ after Sunday’s second assassination attempt
Couric then moved on to Trump being convicted of 34 charges related to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election – in which Clinton was his rival.
The former first lady said she was working on edits for her book so had her phone turned off on the May day the verdict was announced.
She then realized ‘my phone is blowing up’ with ‘people I haven’t heard from in years.’
‘I quickly read that he had been convicted of 34 felony counts for interfering in the 2016 election – because that’s what that trial was about. Hush money was a means to prevent information from being made public that might have affected the vote,’ Clinton said. ‘So it was election interference.’
‘To see that a jury of his peers in the place he grew up, in New York, had found him guilty was, you know, very reassuring to me about our system,’ Clinton continued.
‘And I did get a, you know, little bit teary-eyed because I thought, “wow no one is above the law,”‘ she added.
