Former first lady and Secretary of State and onetime Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says her chance to become president has passed.
In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday night, Clinton said she will never again run for the White House.
“No, no,” she said when asked if her future plans include another presidential run. But she indicated that she will remain active in politics.
“I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that we have a president who respects our democracy and the rule of law and upholds our institutions,” she added.
Clinton also underscored a hope that Donald Trump — who beat her for the White House in 2016 — will be “soundly defeated” if he runs again on the Republican ticket in 2024.
“It should start in the Republican Party,” she added. “Grow a backbone. Stand up to this guy … And heaven forbid if he gets the nomination, he needs to be defeatedly roundly and sent back to Mar-a-Lago.”
Clinton made her remarks amid a federal investigation of documents that Trump took with him from the White House to Mar-a-Lago — including many that were marked “classified.” The FBI came up with the documents during a search of his Florida home last month.
During her campaign for president six years ago, Trump assailed Clinton for sensitive materials that she sent over a private, non-secure email server. She was ultimately cleared of criminal wrongdoing, but the FBI said she had acted carelessly with the materials.
Clinton said the two situations are completely different.
“I was cleared and [then-FBI Director James Comey] just kept talking and talking,” she said. “And then [he] came up with a new reason to talk some more 10 days before the election.
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“So I think it’s a really different comparison to what’s going on here when it appears that the Justice Department and the FBI have been incredibly patient, quiet, careful, until they finally apparently thought that national security was at stake.”
Clinton also revealed that she watched the public hearings of the House Jan. 6 committee this summer and gained a new respect for GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who’s been a top critic of Trump. She will be leaving Congress, however, after losing her primary race in Wyoming last month and said she may even run for president.
The former first lady also commended Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide in Trump’s White House who gave perhaps the most dramatic testimony of all the hearings.
“That goes to a point about being a gutsy woman,” Clinton said. “The couple of young women who have come forward out of the Trump White House, they have been vilified. They had to have known that they were going to be criticized.
“But I give them enormous credit for speaking the truth and doing the right thing.”
Clinton, 74, was widely expected to win the presidency in 2016 and become the first female U.S. president. Since then, there has been speculation about whether she might ever run again.
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“I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that we have a president who respects our democracy and the rule of law and upholds our institutions,” “Crooked Hil-Liar-y” added.
Unlike the treasonous, corrupt, demented, unlawful, puppet president Joe Biden that we have now, who does not respect our laws, our Constitution, or our citizens.
TILL she is six feet under, i do NOT THINK IN anyway, she has willfully given up her chances of running again.
SHE Covets the power too damn much.
“I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that we have a president who respects our democracy and the rule of law and upholds our institutions,”
Clearly that leaves her out…..But, where will a Democrat/Socialist/Grifter find such a person?
THAT leaves out EVERY DAMN DEMOCRAT out there..
As not a single bloody one, HONORS OUR constitution, or respects our rule of law.
And we have the RINOs who can’t be trusted.
Too true. BOTH are rotten and need to get excised from govt.
Hillary Clinton says her chance to become president has passed, because the Democrat’s ability to steal elections came too late, and she never did understand that THE PEOPLE usually do the selecting, not the bought and paid for media mavens. She tried to control the government the same way she controlled her husband. i.e. tow the line or I’ll let you skeletons out of the closet. When up against a real opponent like Trump she thought her media minions could win her an election by making up stories and creating imaginary skeletons and boogeymen in his closet that even the FBI could find no evidence of. God help her if they ever get inside her and Bill’s closets where the undergarments have plenty of skid marks to be found. THE PEOPLE already chose a Trump president who respects our democracy and the rule of law and upholds our institutions,,,,unlike Hillary and the her kind that celebrate law breaking as a life style and import it across the border in legions.
Or that’s what she says right now. I don’t trust anything she says.
Neither do i.
By Terence P. Jeffrey | September 2, 2016
(CNSNews.com) – “In a July 2 interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation about her email practices, use of a personal email server, and specific emails she sent and received as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton told her questioners, as the FBI summarized it, that she “could not recall,” “did not recall,” “did not remember” or “had no recollection” 41 times.”
“To believe Clinton’s testimony to the FBI under oath, would be to be on the intellectual level of a mentally challenged squirrel, and that is being unkind to the squirrel.”
“Crooked Hil-Liar-y” is a “compulsive liar” and a “sociopath” .
A “sociopath” is typically defined as someone who lies incessantly to get their way and does so with little concern for others.
In contrast to England’s lose, this pile of Schiff will not be missed.
The total opposite of Queen Elizabeth.
At least that’s one less ugly old stupid hag we have to put up with. Too bad Pelosi doesn’t join her.
Too bad. They may both DD soon. Hope so!