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Hillary Clinton reacts to military plans leak: ‘You have got to be kidding me’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Clinton punctuated her reaction on the X platform with an eyes emoji and a link to an Atlantic article that revealed how Trump officials inadvertently broadcast plans of US airstrikes on Houthi rebels through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along.

Trump and his supporters criticized her ruthlessly for her classified emails and private server use before and after he defeated her in the presidential election nine years earlier, even calling for her to be imprisoned.

Among them were some of the participants in the group chat reported on by the Atlantic: the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth; the secretary of state, Marco Rubio; the Central Intelligence Agency director, John Ratcliffe; and the national security adviser, Mike Waltz.

“If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now,” ex-Fox News host Hegseth said on his former network in 2016, as CNN showed in a montage which went viral Monday night.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I mean this is fucked up, but also US voters despise Hillary for representing the status quo, which she does...

The tragic thing is centrist democrats would only ever respond to the "hillary emails" thing by completely accepting and engaging with the framing conservatives set and then totally getting steam rolled when they tried to make any kind of persuasive argument within that hostile framework.

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If only that was all… Not only is she branded by his husband great legacy; she literally has a wikipedia page of controveries! (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hillary_Clinton_controversies)

I have no idea what sort of shitfuckery had gone down for her to win the dem primary

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Especially since Hillary was the precisely wrong candidate for the moment independent of what you think of her, she represented establishment politics through and through possibly more than anybody else other then Jeb Bush (who didn't even register nationally except as a meme that election cycle).

It was hilariously obvious that the general public was ready to throw a hand grenade at the status quo and that Hillary Clinton was the worst possible kind of candidate to rally behind in that moment.

sigh

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago

She and hear team literally purposely elevated Trump during the primaries because she was so sure she would be running against Jeb Bush in the general election.

*sigh*

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

US voters despise Hillary for representing the status quo, which she does…

Used to. The status quo is now fascism. I wish we could go back to only being as bad as the old status quo.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean this is fucked up, but also US voters despise Hillary for representing the status quo, which she does...

Welcome to the DNC. See also: Harris.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They should ask Jeb Bush next.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

He'd just say "Please clap."

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

Narrator: They were not, in fact, kidding her.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Pizzagate. Right, Marge?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

I mean its from the team that keeps classified info in bathrooms.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Girl, fuck right off. You fucked 2016 up knowing full well the outcome and didn't give a fuck. Get a stroke on public T and shove the fuck off this mortal coil. already.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org -4 points 1 week ago

Hillary is a psychopath.