Clinton says Trump’s threats ‘should scare all Americans’

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Americans, regardless of their politics, should fear the “kind of threats” made by former President Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee this fall.

In a podcast episode on Democracy Docket’s “Defending Democracy,” which aired last Friday, Clinton drew a stark contrast between Trump and President Biden, saying the current president is “modeling responsible leadership, which is not flashy, not engages in vitriolic attacks on people, at rallies and online, not threatening to execute people and put them in prison.”

“And the kind of threats we hear from Donald Trump should scare every American,” said Clinton, the Democratic candidate defeated by Trump in the 2016 presidential race.

Clinton characterized her 2016 opponent as “authoritarian”, exposing what she considers to be the threat that Trump poses to institutions.

“Because with an authoritarian, you never know which side of the bed he’s going to wake up on, you never know who he’s going to be upset with today, you never know if someone is basically bribing him by giving business to a relative or some other gift, who will try to destroy one business to benefit another,” she said.

“You never know because they don’t believe in the rule of law. They don’t believe in institutions, and so if we give them the opportunity to be freer than he was in his first term – when he was trying to figure out what he could do, and he actually had some people around who were restricting him – all of that will disappear,” Clinton said.

“If he goes anywhere near the White House again, it will be like having a dictator, and I don’t say that lightly.”

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. The Hill also reached out to Clinton’s office for further comment.

Trump and Biden are the possible nominees of the main political parties for the 2024 presidential elections in November. According to Decision Desk HQ/The Hill’s national poll tracker, Trump (45.3 percent) leads Biden (44.4 percent) by less than 1 percentage point – well within the margins of error of most polls. researches.