Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claims Trump wants to “kill” and “imprison” his opposition in an interview in which she implored voters to ignore an “old” Joe Biden.
The 76-year-old Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential election to the 77-year-old Trump, appeared with Marc Elias on the Defending Democracy podcast, where she gave her view on the 2024 race.
She believes that when it comes to the rematch between the 81-year-old Biden and Trump, despite his age, she still supports the “effective and compassionate” current president who wants to “preserve our democracy.”
Trump, on the other hand, believes Clinton would be an autocrat modeled on Vladimir Putin, or a dictator like Kim Jong-un, while also being “old,” as she put it.
“Trump simply loved Putin because Putin is doing what Trump would like to do: killing his opposition, imprisoning his opposition, driving journalists and others into exile, governing without any checks or balances,” she said.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claims Trump wants to ‘kill’ and ‘imprison’ his opposition in an interview in which she implored voters to ignore an ‘old’ Joe Biden
“That’s what Trump really wants,” she added. “Those are the people he models himself after, and we’ve been down this road in our, you know, world history. We certainly don’t want to experience that again.’
Clinton contrasted Biden with Trump, saying that “if he wants to preserve our democracy, he will abide by the results of a fair and free election.”
“They say Joe Biden is old. I say you’re right. Joe Biden is old, he is also effective, compassionate, he cares about people.”
“Donald Trump is old and he has 91 federal criminal charges against him,” she said.
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign told the newspaper Washington Examiner in a statement that Clinton was delusional.
“Hillary continues to suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome and appears unable to accept the outcome of the 2016 election.”
“So now she’s trying to tell herself lies, in addition to trying to deceive the American people into believing her own distorted and perverse views.”
However, poll after poll shows that Americans are more concerned about Biden’s age than Trump’s.
Clinton believes Trump would be an autocrat modeled on Vladimir Putin or a dictator like Kim Jong-un, while also being “old,” as she put it
Clinton contrasted Biden with Trump, saying that ‘he wants to preserve our democracy, he will abide by the results of a fair and free election’
According to an exclusive poll for DailyMail.com from early April, only 38 percent of likely 2024 voters believe President Joe Biden will still be alive at the end of a new four-year term.
And that means one thing: Vice President Kamala Harris is just as likely to take the top job in January 2029 as Biden if he is re-elected.
About 36 percent of likely voters believe Harris will be president at the end of the term. The exact same share I think Biden will get the job.
The results show that the 81-year-old president’s age will be a major factor on Nov. 5, when voters choose the commander in chief they want for the next four years.
Donald Trump, his Republican rival, is only four years younger, but voters have fewer doubts.
More than half say they are confident he will serve the full term, while 34 percent say they have doubts.
Either way, the results show how Republicans and Democrats will have to weigh not only their choice of president, but who is likely to step into the breach if ill health — or worse — incapacitates the leader of the free world makes.
Trump has repeatedly attacked Biden as unfit for office because of his age. But he too has suffered from unforced errors and verbal blunders at public events, which some Republicans say demonstrate his declining performance.
JL Partners asked 1,005 likely voters their opinions on Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Only 38 percent said they were confident Biden would survive four full years of another term
“Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to mess around with the nuclear word,” Trump said earlier this month at a rally in Richmond, Virginia, confusing the current president with a Democratic predecessor.
For now, Trump has the upper hand.
A separate DailyMail.com/JL Partners poll of 1,000 likely voters showed the former president maintaining the four-point lead he has held since December.