Hillary Clinton on Friday called the Trump administration’s approach to governing both dumb and dangerous in an essay excoriating the Signal chat scandal and the Elon Musk-led mission to slash the federal workforce, and concluding that Trump would make the US “feeble and friendless”.

The former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate wrote an op-ed for the New York Times that has been given the headline: “How much dumber will this get?” and opens: “It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity.”

Clinton starts with the Signal chat group scandal, when Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, mistakenly added a top US journalist to a small group of government leaders on the encrypted but unclassified app and then the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, proceeded to discuss intricate details of a forthcoming airstrike on Houthi militants in Yemen and report back to the group on the deadly results.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah. I hate when experienced people write on a subject they’ve known and worked for decades.

      We should hate them because they were an imperfect candidate with a career of work and support only overshadowed by Saint Bernie, and expected America to not elect a felon.

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      6 days ago

      Literally if it weren’t for her and the DNC collusion in 2016 this could’ve been avoided entirely. Like it legitimately does come back to Sanders - he’s very much a centrist at best and FAR from ideal, but could’ve at least greased the wheels a bit to loosen the overton window and pave the way for actual leftists.

      The DNC knows this and they wanted this. Fascism is preferable to them.