Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blasted former President Trump’s “authoritarian” actions Wednesday in encouraging GOP lawmakers to abandon the border deal struck in the Senate.
In an interview with MSNBC, Clinton called the dysfunction in Congress a “circus” and said Trump, who had been outspoken in his opposition to the bipartisan bill, was the “puppeteer.”
“I was in the Senate for eight years, and I know some of the people that are still there. I know they don’t believe this,” Clinton said. “And why they continue to give in to him, I don’t understand.
I think that the border security would have been a very good time to stand up to Trump and say ‘You’ve been talking about it. We’re delivering for you, Mr. President,’ and go from there.”
Clinton said she was surprised at the “capitulation to Trump’s whims” regarding the border bill battle, saying Republicans would “rather have a problem on the border than a solution.”
“Frankly, the Democrats gave up a lot to support the Republican request for greater security, which I favored actually.
And then at the last minute to have Donald Trump tell people who are independently elected in their states and have an obligation to represent their constituents and their conscience, that they had to stop trying to solve the problem and go back to letting it fester for his own political purposes was pretty shocking to me,” Clinton said.
She later continued, “There were a few profiles in courage for a little while. People standing up and say, ‘What are you talking about? We want to solve this problem.
That’s why we’re sent to Washington.’ But then they capitulated and honestly, it shows a real danger that Trump poses where it doesn’t matter whether you have a bipartisan agreement to solve a problem or not.
If he wants it for political purposes, then he tries to and succeeds in blowing it up.
That is what authoritarians do and that’s yet another reason why we can’t let them anywhere near the White House again.”
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