Hillary Clinton, Are You Kidding Me With This Op-Ed?
You don’t even need to read it,
folks. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a two-time presidential loser, had some
thoughts on the Signal story. To recap, National Security Adviser
Michael Waltz discussed anti-Houthi operations on Signal, an encrypted,
government-approved messenger app, which accidentally added The
Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg who exaggerated its contents, alleging
classified war plans were discussed. That’s a lie. Goldberg is a known
anti-Trump fabulist. Was it an unforced error? Sure, and the
consequences were days of annoying distractions and hysterics from the
liberal media.
Hillary Clinton decided to weigh in,
not on just the Signal story,
but how the Trump administration is going—lady, no one cares. Even if
you struck chords with Democrats, they don’t want you around. They
certainly don’t want the Bidens around either. Also, you’re the last
person who should be delivering lectures on supposed disclosures of
sensitive information, Ms. Clinton. This latest op-ed is painfully
transparent in its intentions (via NYT):
If you think that’s bad Hillary, you should hear what a former Sec of State did on purpose https://t.co/QnpzaWUuQI
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. But we knew that already. What’s much worse is that top Trump
administration officials put our troops in jeopardy by sharing military
plans on a commercial messaging app and unwittingly invited a journalist
into the chat. That’s dangerous. And it’s just dumb.
This is the
latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration
that are squandering America’s strength and threatening our national
security. Firing hundreds of federal workers charged with protecting our
nation’s nuclear weapons is also dumb. So is shutting down efforts to
fight pandemics just as a deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading in Africa.
It makes no sense to purge talented generals, diplomats and spies at a
time when rivals like China and Russia are trying to expand their global
reach.
In a dangerous and complex world, it’s not enough to be
strong. You must also be smart. As secretary of state during the Obama
administration, I argued for smart power, integrating the hard power of
our military with the soft power of our diplomacy, development
assistance, economic might and cultural influence. None of those tools
can do the job alone. Together, they make America a superpower. The
Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our
strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump’s
America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and
friendless.
Let’s start with the military, because that’s what he
claims to care about. Don’t let the swagger fool you. Mr. Trump and
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (of group chat fame) are apparently
more focused on performative fights over wokeness than preparing for
real fights with America’s adversaries…
[…]
I visited 112
countries and traveled nearly one million miles as America’s top
diplomat, and I have seen how valuable it is for our country to be
represented on the ground in far-flung places. The U.S. military has
long understood that our forces must be forward deployed in order to
project American power and respond quickly to crises. The same is true
of our diplomats. Our embassies are our eyes and ears informing policy
decisions back home. They are launchpads for operations that keep us
safe and prosperous, from training foreign counterterrorism forces to
helping U.S. companies enter new markets.
[…]
All of this
is both dumb and dangerous. And I haven’t even gotten to the damage Mr.
Trump is doing by cozying up to dictators like Russia’s Vladimir Putin,
blowing up our alliances — force multipliers that extend our reach and
share our burdens — and trashing our moral influence by undermining the
rule of law at home.
It's a recycling of old Russian collusion hoax theater, and the
grumblings of a woman who still has not gotten over losing in 2016. No
one cares that you visited over 100 countries, lady. The Obama foreign
policy allowed Russia to annex Crimea and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to gas
his own people without consequences. Most of this reads with a “look
what you missed out on” theme: lady, no one wanted you to be president,
that’s why you lost. You thought you’d inherit the political power of
the Obama coalition, but young people liked Bernie Sanders more. Also,
in 2025, that coalition is dead, as more young people have become MAGA
Republicans—Gen Z is trending to be the most conservative youth voter
bloc in 50 years.
Also, you were reckless as secretary of state: you had a private email server from which you conducted all official State business that wasn’t secured. It was infiltrated by foreign adversaries. Classified information was shared
through this system. You lied about this system being approved by the
State Department, per the inspector general report, and if you had
asked, they would have rejected this insane workaround. You deleted
30,000 emails under federal subpoena. The Signal chats were not
classified and weren’t under a court order to be turned over, Clinton.
So, yeah, your saga about divulging classified information and being
reckless with state secrets is still worse. You’re the worst, and Trump
beating you in 2016 saved the country.
Give it a rest, lady. You’re never going to be president, but
you did get a lot of money from speaking engagements and that slush fund
called the Clinton Foundation.
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