In a scathing New York Times piece published Friday, Hillary Clinton slammed the Trump administration over its Signal conversation breach and labeled its policies “dumb” many times.
Over its little time in office thus far, the former Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state criticized President Donald Trump and his crew as irresponsible and foolish.
What worries me is the ignorance, not the hypocrisy. We’re all startled — horrified! — that President Trump and his administration don’t truly care about preserving sensitive material or federal record preservation rules,” Clinton wrote. We already knew that, though. What is even worse is that top Trump administration officials shared military plans on a commercial messaging app, putting our troops at danger, and unknowingly let a journalist into the conversation. That is risky. It’s simply stupid.
Earlier this week, Clinton wrote on X, “You have got to be kidding me,” in reaction to The Atlantic’s report that editor Jeffrey Goldberg had been mistakenly included on a group Trump administration conversation discussing Yemen strikes. Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign was plagued by her use of a private email server at the State Department and claims she mishandled confidential material.
In the Times piece, Clinton said she used “smart” authority as the first secretary of state under President Barack Obama.
The Trump strategy is stupid power. Mr. Trump’s America will be more blind and blundering, weak and friendless instead of a strong America employing all our resources to guide the globe and challenge our enemies.
Among Clinton’s grievances were the Trump administration’s downsizing of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), closure of embassies and consulates, and government layoffs affecting intelligence agencies.
Clinton pounded on the idea that Trump’s staff was stupid, denouncing several Trump administration actions as “not smart,” “dumb power,” “dumb,” and “dumb and dangerous.”
She also compared her husband’s 1990s work to the Trump administration’s government cutting program, DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency).
My husband’s Reinventing Government project, run by Vice President Al Gore, worked with Congress during the Clinton administration to carefully simplify bureaucracy, update the work force and save billions of dollars. In many respects, it was the reverse of the Trump administration’s slash-and-burn strategy. Today they are destroying government, not changing it, she said.
Clinton’s criticisms of Trump came at the conclusion of a week ruled by the Signal conversation leak.
While Trump Cabinet members have insisted no secret material was discussed in the forum, The Atlantic has published the private texts it claims reveal a grave national security risk.
