Hillary says she's working hard to retire Trump and send him 'back to the golf course full-time'
Hillary Clinton has revealed that she spends most of her time working to support Joe Biden so she can send President Donald J Trump "back to the golf course full-time."
The 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful touched on the status quo during a virtual interview with comedienne Amy Schumer that is to air as part of Variety's first virtual TV festival.
Speaking from her home in Chappaqua, NY, Clinton told Schumer, who is staying with her family in Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, that she was "spending most of my time trying to do everything I can to retire him and to send him back to the golf course full-time."
The former Secretary of State said she felt a sense of responsibility for Trump's presidency after losing to him in 2016.
“I didn’t think I was going to lose. But I felt a sense of real responsibility, like how did this happen? Of course, I was really worried about Trump," she said. "But he’s been worse than I even feared he would be, and as I tried to warn people he would be.”
Responding to her 'efforts' to defeat Trump, the president's campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh wrote to The Hill in an email: "Because that worked so well the first time."
Clinton also commented on the ongoing protests against racial injustice and police brutality, and criticized Trump's decisions on a number of issues.
“We’re seeing that play out dramatically right now between Covid, and the economy, and the terrible decisions he made around peaceful protesters, and trying to send in the military — and so much that is contrary to the Constitution, to our fundamental values to humanity,” she said. “So, I have carried with me this real sense of deep responsibility that, ‘Oh, my gosh, I just can’t bear the fact this man became president.’ For whatever combination of reasons, and there were a lot of reasons, I win a popular vote and lose the electoral college by literally a handful.”
“This protest that is going on,” she continued, referring to the demonstrations after George Floyd’s death in police custody. “It really is a kind of moment of moral reckoning."
She added that people "can’t turn away from that eight-minute-and-46-second video. They can’t turn away from the look on that policeman’s face where he just literally shifted his body and put his hand in [his] pocket and put greater pressure on Mr Floyd’s neck. Because they can’t look away, they have to come to grips with what has gone on.”
However, the former first lady also acknowledged changes in the discourse surrounding racism in the United States.
“Black Lives Matter was considered a kind of radical statement a few years ago,” she said. “I remember I was criticized, I was attacked online, for using it. And I get it, and now we’re at a different point because people’s awareness, consciousness and actual events that they now see on their phones have changed the debate.”
Clinton and Schumer also touched on some lighter subjects, including what Clinton's last meal would be.
