Clinton Compares Russian Interference In 2016 To 9/11 Attacks

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Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton drew a comparison Tuesday between the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, saying that in both cases, a foreign power had attacked the United States, but that in the latter, the president had “done nothing.”

Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, also said she thinks Russian interference and other factors “certainly altered the outcome” in several parts of the country during the last campaign. She criticized President Donald Trump’s response to last year’s violence in Charlottesville, saying he “has thrown his lot in” with white nationalists.

Clinton made the remarks during a wide-ranging interview at the Atlantic Festival in Washington.

The U.S. intelligence community has concluded Russia interfered in the 2016 election with the goal of boosting Trump’s campaign. The interference included hacking that targeted the Democratic National Committee and the emails of former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta as well as the use of fake social media accounts to spread false information. The hacked emails were allegedly transferred to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks.

Asked Tuesday by Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg whether she believed Russia had stolen the election from her, Clinton responded by pointing to a number of factors.

“I believe that the combination of the Russian campaign, the WikiLeaks being the cutout for Russian stolen information, the role that Cambridge Analytica and other organizations like that played in connection with the Republican apparatus, the [Republican] National Committee and other allies and the Trump campaign certainly altered the outcome in enough places that we have to ask, ‘What really happened?’ ” she replied.

Cambridge Analytica has come under criticism for its use of personal Facebook data in elections, but the political consultancy’s influence on the 2016 campaign remains unclear.

Clinton told Goldberg that while she did not want to look backward, “what we know now is incredibly troubling.” She added 2016 was the first time “that we have been attacked by a foreign power and have done nothing.”

“It would be like – I can’t even imagine – I mean, it’s a horrible example, but after 9/11, [if] George W. Bush said, ‘Well, I don’t have time to meet. I don’t have time to worry about this. It was terrible. We feel sorry about it. We’ll rebuild New York and the Pentagon, but we’re not going to worry about it.’ Well at a certain point, that’s what this is turning into. The evidence continues to accumulate,” Clinton said.

Clinton has previously been critical of Trump’s mixed messages on Russia’s election interference and his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, although Tuesday appeared to be the first time she made a comparison to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Clinton was also asked whether she thinks Trump is a racist. At first, she declined to answer directly but said the president had aligned himself with racist groups and individuals.

“I think he has thrown his lot in with many people and groups whose stated objective is white nationalism, white supremacy,” Clinton said. “I mean, how could you explain what he did and why after Charlottesville?”

She noted that after the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush visited a mosque to tell American Muslims, “We’re not at war with you.”

“But that’s not what we got after Charlottesville [Virginia],” Clinton said. “And that remains one of the most troubling episodes in this presidency.”

Moments later, Clinton went on to say Trump “has been racist; he’s been sexist; he’s been Islamophobic; he has been anti-LGBTQ; I mean, there’s a long list.”

“He has a view of America that is incredibly constricted, and he talks to that America,” she said. “He talks to them all the time. And it’s by no means a majority, as we know, but it is a very hard core who are responding to him and supporting him for a variety of reasons.”

(c) 2018, The Washington Post · Felicia Sonmez  

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Hillary is wrong regarding George W Bush’s response to Sep.11th. Bush committed war crimes. He sent thousands of young American children to their deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. Aside from that, the Bush crime family allowed all the Saudis to escape the US on Sep. 12th.

  2. Hey, she’s right for a change. Does this criminal still think people haven’t learned the truth about 9/11 yet? As President Trump said, since when do aluminum airplanes take out steel and concrete buildings? Since when do buildings just collapse on their own and turn into dust in less than 2 hours?

    And does this devil still think that people don’t know that she was trying to alter the elections with her Russian collusion and Dossier funding scheme along with her smearing of President-Elect Trump?

  3. Hillary, did you really think G-d would allow a criminal of your caliber that includes murdering dozens of people and other atrocities to become the President of the US? How many investigators and associates of yours are already on your Clinton Body Count, huh?

  4. If Hillary Clinton wants to see the main reason, by far and away, that she lost to President Trump perhaps she should start a Go Fund Me campaign to buy herself a mirror.

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