Clinton has pretty harsh words for Trump, including what are likely to be perceived as personal insults.
Clinton, who was notably assaulted by Trump over her use of a commercial server to send government emails when she was secretary of state, wrote in an opinion piece on The New York Times that almost every one of the Trump administration’s measures have been “dumb,” including a recent episode in which top Trump officials, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, discussed U.S. war plans against Yemen on a commercial messaging app and in a conversation to which a journalist had been inadvertently added.
She opened the piece with the words: “It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity.”
“We’re all shocked — shocked! — that President Trump and his team don’t actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws,” she went on.
“That’s dangerous. And it’s just dumb,” Clinton wrote.
She went on to refer to a series of Trump administration measures, including mass firings of federal employees in various government agencies, and ended her argument about each with the words “Dumb” and “Not smart.”
Trump is a personal nemesis of both Clinton and her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Trump has on numerous occasions also derided the former secretary of state for her links to former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In her piece, Clinton said the United States was engaged in a global debate with China and Russia about “competing systems of governance.”
“If America is ruled like a banana republic, with flagrant corruption and a leader who puts himself above the law, we lose that argument. We also lose the qualities that have made America exceptional and indispensable,” she said.
The former U.S. secretary of state ended her piece with even harsher personal words for the incumbent president.
“As a businessman, he bankrupted his Atlantic City casinos. Now he’s gambling with the national security of the United States. If this continues, a group chat foul will be the least of our concerns, and all the fist and flag emojis in the world won’t save us,” Clinton wrote.
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