Chelsea Clinton tears into President Donald Trump, calls him 'greatest scam in America's political history'
President Donald Trump seems to have no dearth of enemies. Trump’s former presidential rival Hillary Clinton recently took a dig at him in the wake of the impeachment inquiry launched against him over his controversial call with the president of Ukraine in July. And now, Hillary’s daughter Chelsea has also attacked the president, going to the extent of calling him “the greatest scam in American political history”.
Appearing on ‘The View’ on Wednesday, October 2, along with her mother, the 39-year-old Chelsea lashed out at Trump saying his whole life has been a scam and and not just his stay at the White House. She also said that Trump’s “scam” has succeeded at the highest level and it has made people suffer.
Last month, Chelsea responded to a tweet posted by Trump denouncing the impeachment as the “greatest scam in the history of American politics” saying “Yes, you are”. Trump posted the tweet reacting to the impeachment process that was launched against him on September 24. The matter came to the fore after a whistleblower made a complaint about Trump allegedly putting pressure on the Ukrainian leadership to investigate his domestic political rival Joe Biden to derail his 2020 presidential ambitions. Chelsea's father Bill Clinton also faced impeachment on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in 1998 though he averted an ouster from office.
'Not the America I want my kids to grow up'
An author and a global health advocate, Chelsea felt strongly about Trump’s hardline border policies and said she didn’t want her three children to grow up in the America of Donald Trump. “You know I have a daughter Charlotte who just turned five last week, a son Aiden, he is three and baby Jasper just two months old. And I think about the country they’re living in right now it’s not the country I want them to grow up in,” Chelsea said on the program on ABC.
“We learned last night that President Trump wanted to dig a ditch at the border and put alligators and snakes and shoot migrants in the leg. The depth of cruelty and inhumanity towards migrants, towards people of color, towards LGBTQ community…is not the America I want my kids to grow up in,” she added.
Chelsea and Hillary are currently promoting their upcoming jointly authored book ‘The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience’. Recently, the duo was seen on CBS News where Hillary called Trump an “illegitimate president”. Hillary still rues the fact that despite getting more of the popular vote, she lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential elections.
Hillary reiterated on ‘The View’ her “illegitimate president” remark saying Trump knows about it and hence he is “insecure”. “He accuses other people of doing what he does, and I didn't understand that projection originally. It was so odd. ... That's a central part of his personality,” she said.