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Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who warned that questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 election was "threatening our democracy," has reemerged as sore loser Hillary Clinton now questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 election.
Her comments attacking the legitimacy of the last election came in an interview with Mother Jones published this past Friday:
Exclusive: @hillaryclinton tells me “there are lots of questions” about legitimacy of Trump's election because of Russian interference & GOP voter suppressionmotherjones.com/politics/2017/…
"Do you think it was a LEGITIMATE election?" Clinton: "I think there are lots of questions about its legitimacy, and we don't have a method for contesting that in our system. That's why I've long advocated for an independent commission to get to the bottom of what happened." twitter.com/AriBerman/stat…
Just days before last year's election -- when all of the media pundits and polling had her believing she was well ahead of Donald Trump -- she was singing a much different tune on the topic:
Hillary's live in Cleveland talking about what we need to do to move our country forward. Watch here: abcn.ws/1eC6FpC
"Go to IWillVote.com because...there’s only one way we lose this election, just one: if we don’t turn out to vote.” —@POTUS
"When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of our elections—then that undermines our democracy." —@POTUS
That was in response to a question posed to Donald Trump during their third and final presidential debate last year:
A defiant Donald Trump used the high-profile setting of the final presidential debate here Wednesday night to amplify one of the most explosive charges of his candidacy: that if he loses the election, he might consider the results illegitimate because the process is rigged.Questioned directly as to whether he would accept the outcome should Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton prevail on Nov. 8, Trump demurred. “I will keep you in suspense,” the Republican nominee said.Clinton called Trump’s answer “horrifying,” saying he was “talking down our democracy.”
Well after her stunning defeat, look who's talking down our democracy now:
Hillary Clinton on 2016 Election: ‘I Think There Are Lots of Questions About Its Legitimacy’ bit.ly/2zbwS3i (VIDEO)
Yesterday, President Trump had his own response to Clinton's shocking volte face:
In response to her comments, her backers are now pushing out bizarre conspiracy theories:
New evidence is coming out that Russian hackers changed our actual vote totals. This article from June explains how easy it is for vote totals to be changed in electronic voting machines.
We need & deserve a #NewElection.#AMJoy #Resist#TrumpRussiaesquire.com/news-politics/…
And openly advocating sedition:
The 2016 election was not legitimate. We may not have a method of fixing it, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.@HillaryClinton is the rightful President of the United States. We must right the wrong, we must regain our stature in the world. We must #InsallHillary
Anyone who does not accept the results of the election is a threat to democracy. Ring any bells?
And Hillary Clinton knows who is exactly to blame for the illegitimacy of the election -- THE RUSSIANS!!!! [cue scary music]
.@HillaryClinton says Russian interference in U.S. elections is “a clear and present danger” to democracy.
Yet some of the president's loudest critics are not having any of Clinton's antics:
There is zero evidence, anywhere, that Trump was elected president for any reason other than the sufficient number of Americans in the right localities actually voted for him. That's a legitimate election. Period. twitter.com/brianstelter/s…
There is zero evidence, anywhere, that Trump was elected president for any reason other than the sufficient number of Americans in the right localities actually voted for him. That's a legitimate election. Period. twitter.com/brianstelter/s…
It's important to recall how many in the media had her back when questioning the legitimacy of the election was a direct threat to democracy:
So as Hillary Clinton has completely reversed course on election legitimacy and is now calling for an independent commission to investigate her "Russia hacked the election" conspiracy theories, she also told Mother Jones that any investigation into her own dealings with Russia would be an abuse of power:
So in review, Hillary Clinton doesn't believe that she should be held to her own standard about questioning the legitimacy of elections -- and she believes that she is literally above the law.
If you're Hillary Clinton, laws (and elections, apparently) are for the little people.
