Asked if she felt threatened by the Republican National Convention crowd’s repeated chants to “lock her up,” Hillary Clinton said the refrain instead left her feeling pretty down.
“It felt very sad, Scott,” Clinton told CBS’ “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley on Sunday. “I mean—I don’t know what their convention was about, other than criticizing me. I seem to be the only unifying theme that they had.”
“There was no positive agenda,” she continued. “It was a very dark, divisive campaign. And the people who were speaking were painting a picture of our country that I did not recognize. You know, negative, scapegoating, fear, bigotry, smears. I just was so—I was saddened by it.”
Though the chants were led by delegates on the floor, they were egged on by speakers including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), interjected in the “60 Minutes” interview to call the chant “ridiculous.” Kaine pointed out that FBI Director James Comey concluded a year-long investigation by announcing that Clinton should not be prosecuted for her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Clinton admitted that she made a “mistake” by using the private server to conduct business.
“That is one lesson I have learned the hard way, and there will not be any such thing in the White House,” she said.
I don’t know who was more upset when Hillary wasn’t indicted - Republicans or Jane Sanders and the berniebros.
THe SMEAr oN trump and HIS campaign replete witH POSITIvenss OF FeeliNgs AND HOPe for CHANge continues. CHANters WHere CLEarly libtard PLAnts in what was an Amazing, beautiful and Strong and star Studded CONVEntion.
Know what’s even sadder? The plot by berniebros to continue in this tradition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_7GrRw6S64Berniebros plotting a “fart-in” during her acceptance speech. Isn’t that clever? What is the good reason for that? The misogynist assholes are really no better than the assholes at the RNC convention and Fox “News”. Worse, really.
There’ve been whole books written about how little we value seriousness, at least in our mass culture, or maturity, restraint, nuance, all the grownup virtues we no longer pay even much lip service to. It’s more fun and more dopamine-producing to be angry, to jeer, to view it all as entertainment with heroes and villains.
The irony is as president she’ll have the privilege of watching Trump get “locked up” for his “University” scam.