On Monday night, Daily Show host and Democratic Party spokesperson Trevor Noah brought on washed up, sore loser Hillary Clinton so the two of them could tell viewers “I told you so” about President Trump and warn that the U.S. was on an “ominous path” to November’s election. The leftist pair were particularly concerned that Trump would “undermine the entire election,” despite Clinton doing exactly that after her 2016 defeat.
As he welcomed the failed Democratic presidential candidate on the show, Noah still couldn’t get over the fact that she lost nearly four years ago: “Genuinely, a lot of the time I find myself wondering, just like what you’re doing and where you are as a human being. Because I know if I was in your position, I would spend most of my time tweeting, ‘I told you so,’ and I would be like, I’d walk around the streets just looking at people saying, ‘It could have been me, it could have been me.’”
In reply, Clinton pointed out that she had been spending much of her time whining about the loss before the coronavirus pandemic: “Well, you know, before the lockdown I was doing all of that. I mean there’s probably videos.”
Moments later, Noah tried to scare his left-wing viewers about the upcoming 2020 election: “It seems like America is on an ominous path to a November date when there’s going to be a lot of questions in and around the election.” Clinton predictably launched into a tirade against the GOP:
Republicans have two prongs to their strategy to try to win. The first is try to prevent as many people who think they won’t vote for them from voting. So you know, make the lines really long where young people vote or African-Americans vote or Hispanics vote.
Completely ignoring the fact that Clinton and Democrats have been pushing a phony Russian collusion narrative against Trump for years to undermine the legitimacy of his 2016 victory, Noah feared that the President was threat to November’s contest:
Are you at all concerned about irregularities in voting or fraud?...Is there a part of you that is worried that Donald Trump would be able to use any of those stories to try and undermine the entire election and say, “You see, there’s that one and there’s that one, I don’t think we should trust this election at all because it says that I’ve lost”?
Clinton immediately accepted the helpful talking point that she was provided: “Well, I think it is a fair point to raise as to whether or not, if he loses, he’s going to go quietly or not. And we have to be ready for that.”
During a June interview with Biden, Noah urged his favorite candidate to dangerously declare that the military will be needed to remove Trump from office.
Looking back to 2016 later in Monday’s friendly chat with Clinton, Noah mourned:
Donald Trump has an uncanny ability to put on a show and just really, you know, suck all of the attention that the media wants to give him. There has to be a part of you that, you know, I guess is a little angry at that, because, I mean, when you’re running for president, a lot of it in America, specifically, is about putting on the show. Do you sometimes wish there was like a test that you’d have to write, is there some – because you’re sitting at home and you have so many of these answers and you’ve studied so hard, but really, you got beaten by a showman who just knew how to win the ratings? How do you feel about that when you see what America is going through now?
Clinton wailed: “Well, it breaks my heart. Because I tried to warn people during the campaign that he was not fit for the office, he wasn’t prepared for the office.”
Perhaps the most laughable portion of the interview came at the end, when Noah absurdly invited Clinton, of all people, to lecture Trump about presidential pardons:
I have to ask you about Roger Stone. Help me understand. A, why do presidents – or should presidents have the power to pardon anybody, especially someone who’s related to them in a case. And secondly, what precedence could Trump be setting for America/do you think it’s going to be a precedent where a president says, “I will pardon anybody who protects me by not snitching”?
Lacking any shame whatsoever, Clinton laughably argued: “This is an extension of the total disregard for the rule of law. The pardon power is supposed to be used for compassionate purposes. To try to write wrongs, to try to make sure that people are not being punished unfairly or have been punished enough.”
They must have run out of time to talk about Bill Clinton’s pardon of fiancier and FBI Most Wanted List fugitive Marc Rich in 2001, whose wife was a major donor to the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign. For Hillary Clinton to pass judgement on presidential pardons is beyond hypocrisy, it’s disgusting.
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Here is a transcript of the July 13 interview:
11:27 PM ET
TREVOR NOAH: Secretary Clinton, welcome to The Daily Social Distancing Show.
HILLARY CLINTON: [Laughs] Well, I’m social distancing in my house and it’s great to talk to you today, too.
NOAH: Genuinely, a lot of the time I find myself wondering, just like what you’re doing and where you are as a human being. Because I know if I was in your position, I would spend most of my time tweeting, “I told you so,” and I would be like, I’d walk around the streets just looking at people saying, “It could have been me, it could have been me.” So what – like what do you do? I genuinely would like to know, what do you do?
CLINTON: Well, you know, before the lockdown I was doing all of that. I mean there’s probably videos. [Laughter]
(...)
11:29 PM ET
NOAH: I do know that you’ve been really active, and you know, having your voice heard. One of the biggest things you’ve been passionate about is voting. It seems like America is on an ominous path to a November date when there’s going to be a lot of questions in and around the election. Donald Trump is vehemently against mail-in voting, what do you make of this and what do you think the path should be to getting people the easiest access to casting their vote?
CLINTON: Republicans have two prongs to their strategy to try to win. The first is try to prevent as many people who think they won’t vote for them from voting. So you know, make the lines really long where young people vote or African-Americans vote or Hispanics vote. Try to make vote-by-mail as difficult as possible, claim it’s fraudulent when indeed it’s not. In fact, that’s how Donald Trump votes and everybody who knows about vote-by-mail understands that. And so I’ve been working with a group called Democracy Docket, lead by the lawyer Mark Elias, to help support the lawsuits that are being brought around the country just to make the vote available. You know, to make it clear that look, let’s have a fair election, and that means let as many people who are eligible citizens to go vote.
NOAH: Are you at all concerned about irregularities in voting or fraud? I mean, for instance, we saw the case in New Jersey, I think it was a few weeks ago now, where ironically it was some – a councilman who I think was changing the votes in Republicans’ favor. Is there a part of you that is worried that Donald Trump would be able to use any of those stories to try and undermine the entire election and say, “You see, there’s that one and there’s that one. I don’t think we should trust this election at all because it says that I’ve lost.”
CLINTON: Well, I think it is a fair point to raise as to whether or not, if he loses, he’s going to go quietly or not. And we have to be ready for that.
(...)
11:34 PM ET
NOAH: Many women have said that, they’ve said, “Hillary Clinton got further and did more than I ever dared to think was possible.” If there’s another Hillary out there who’s running and beginning her journey, what would you warn her about or tell her to try and look out for to just give her a little advantage in a world where she desperately needs it?
CLINTON: You will be criticized no matter what you do. And so take criticism seriously because sometimes your critics actually can teach you something. But don’t take it personally. Don’t let it eat away at you. Don’t let it knock you down and keep you down.
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11:37 PM ET
NOAH: But there’s no denying that every country, once they got an idea of what the coronavirus was, handled it differently. When you look back at the way America handled it, once people understood how severe this was, where do you think President Trump went wrong or where do you think a good president would have done something differently?
CLINTON: Well, I think you have to start with President Trump’s total hostility toward science, evidence, facts, logic, reason. He is a showman, he is a reality TV star. He likes to try to bend reality to suit his own preferences.
(...)
11:38 PM ET
CLINTON: So you’ve got to begin and end with his total lack of leadership, his indifference toward what this virus has cost us, not only in lives, but in jobs and livelihoods. And now, of course, he doesn’t want to hear from our leading infectious disease experts like Dr. Fauci. He doesn’t want to hold even the sham of the meetings that he used to hold to try to talk about it. He’s hoping that it either goes away or it leaves our attention span so that he can get back to, you know, pretending to be president.
NOAH: You very rightfully call him a showman, I mean, that’s something we all acknowledge. Donald Trump has an uncanny ability to put on a show and just really, you know, suck all of the attention that the media wants to give him. There has to be a part of you that, you know, I guess is a little angry at that, because, I mean, when you’re running for president, a lot of it in America, specifically, is about putting on the show. Do you sometimes wish there was like a test that you’d have to write, is there some – because you’re sitting at home and you have so many of these answers and you’ve studied so hard, but really, you got beaten by a showman who just knew how to win the ratings. How do you feel about that when you see what America is going through now?
CLINTON: Well, it breaks my heart. Because I tried to warn people during the campaign that he was not fit for the office, he wasn’t prepared for the office. That his appeals to the basest instincts among us was really setting us up for even more divisiveness. And then I saw it, literally from the Inauguration forward, I take no pleasure in that.
(...)
11:40 PM ET
NOAH: I have to ask you about Roger Stone. Help me understand. A, why do presidents – or should presidents have the power to pardon anybody, especially someone who’s related to them in a case. And secondly, what precedence could Trump be setting for America/do you think it’s going to be a precedent where a president says, “I will pardon anybody who protects me by not snitching.”
CLINTON: Well, I think you just summed up why Roger Stone was pardoned. I mean, he basically threatened Trump. You know, he basically said, “I sure don’t want to go to jail and I sure have a lot more to say. And boy, I just wish there would be somebody who could stop me from having to go to jail.” And guess what, you know, Trump intervened.
This is an extension of the total disregard for the rule of law. The pardon power is supposed to be used for compassionate purposes. To try to write wrongs, to try to make sure that people are not being punished unfairly or have been punished enough.
And in this case, it’s a continuation of the cover-up, because the one thing that Trump is fearful of, when it comes to his being president, is that finally we will see how illegitimate his victory actually was. And how he was involved in the seeking of foreign help and then the utilization of it and how Roger Stone was critical to that.
But you know, unless Trump is defeated at the polls in November, we will never really know everything there is to know about this really deep ongoing dismantling of institutions and undermining the rule of law and the original sin of the way that he actually won the election. So Roger Stone was in the middle of it all. And that’s why, you know, Trump had to cover it up.
NOAH: Well, Secretary Clinton, thank you so much for taking the time today. I hope you enjoy the gardening, your walks in the woods, and hopefully you’ll be back out on the streets saying, “I told you so,” sooner than later.
CLINTON: I’ll look forward to that, Trevor. And stay healthy and stay safe yourself.
NOAH: Will do, thank you very much.
