Clinton has repeatedly suggested the 2016 election was stolen from her
Hillary Clinton and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow were hammered on social media Tuesday after the MSNBC host scolded "bad actors" that falsely claim "every election is stolen" during their Monday night interview.
"That the system of democracy at its heart is the idea that the people get to decide how we are governed. And if we no longer believe that our will is effectuated through the system, if bad actors tell us falsely that every election is stolen and that the only way an election is trustworthy is if they come out on top of it, it tells you something not just about that person or that moment, it maybe wounds us as a democracy and in a way that's hard to repair," Maddow said.
What do you think about how we get better after the wounds that have been inflicted on us through this process?" the host asked Clinton.
"Well, I think the truth matters. I think having these cases be brought and be brought in such professional manners, we’ll see how they unfold. Obviously, the trials, if there are trials, are gonna be critically important," the former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee said.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sits down with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
HILLARY CLINTON BREAKS OUT INTO LAUGHTER BEFORE TRUMP INDICTMENT: ‘OH, I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS'
"Can y'all hear yourselves tho?" podcast host Mary Katharine Ham posted in reaction to a clip of the exchange on social media.
The Babylon Bee's Seth Dillion said it was "kind of awkward" to tell Clinton "to her face that she's a bad actor who wounded our democracy."
Can y'all hear yourselves tho? https://t.co/Q5nE5KF8Eq
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) August 15, 2023
Others noted Maddow's repeated push of the Russian collusion narrative after Trump was elected in 2016 and said she had "zero self-awareness."
Kind of awkward to tell Hillary to her face that she’s a bad actor who wounded our democracy. https://t.co/pRIE6L3Wsc
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) August 15, 2023
Zero self-awareness coming from someone who promoted every debunked Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory to reverse the outcome of the 2016 election. https://t.co/AIW05swqdS
— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) August 15, 2023
Indeed. Hillary claimed the 2000 and 2016 elections were stolen -- and questioned the legitimacy of the 2004 elections. https://t.co/YUj8kXl574
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) August 15, 2023
Hillary sitting there like https://t.co/hraR76LySH pic.twitter.com/3tWFOSgGpK
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) August 15, 2023
The irony of watching Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton scold people for spreading conspiracy theories about stolen elections when they were the biggest Trump-Russian collusion hoaxers after the 2016 election. pic.twitter.com/ptBksdnCpZ
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) August 15, 2023
And President Hillary nods sagely. Irony is dead. 😵 https://t.co/h7yv18tjt7
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) August 15, 2023
Clinton has repeatedly claimed the 2016 election was stolen from her and called Donald Trump an "illegitimate president."
Former President Donald Trump takes the stage during an event at Fervent Calvary Chapel on July 8, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Maddow also asked Clinton about a "disconnect" between voters and President Biden.
"Joe Biden is overseeing an economy that’s had the lowest peacetime unemployment since World War II. The lowest levels of poverty, lowest levels of uninsured—people uninsured in terms of health insurance ever in the history of the country. And you just said laudatory things about him in terms of the kinds of leadership he’s modeling," she noted.
Maddow then asked, "And yet, you know where this is going. His approval ratings aren't strong and his prospects for re-election are sort of middling at best. What do you see as the disconnect there?" she asked.
Clinton argued that a lot of Americans don't know what Biden has done.
Hillary Clinton speaks at the Museum of Modern Art on May 24, 2022, in New York City. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
"And part of that is they don't get their news from MSNBC, they get their news from social media, if they get any news at all. They don't have the kind of information that would give them confidence in knowing what their government is doing. We have this bizarre situation where bridges are built and roads are being fixed and people who didn't vote for the money to do that are claiming credit for it," she said.
Trump was indicted for the fourth time on Tuesday on 10 charges, including solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer and conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree.
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Hanna Panreck is an associate editor at Fox News.