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Hillary Clinton Threw Major Shade at President Trump at Wellesley's Graduation

Hillary Clinton sharply criticized President Trump during her graduation speech at Wellesley College Friday.
Hillary Clinton Threw Major Shade at President Trump at Wellesley’s Graduation
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By Tessa Berenson · Updated October 26, 2020

This story originally appeared on Time.

Hillary Clinton sharply criticized President Trump during her graduation speech at Wellesley College Friday, delivering a stinging rebuke to his policies and governing style without ever mentioning his name.

She started with a playful tone talking about her election loss.

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“You may have heard that things didn’t exactly go the way I planned. but you know what, I’m doing OK,” she said. “I’ve gotten to spend time with my family, especially my amazing grandchildren … long walks in the woods, organizing my closets. I won’t lie, Chardonnay helped a little too.”

She implicitly compared Trump to President Nixon talking about her own graduation from Wellesley in 1969, to laughter from the audience.

“We were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace for impeachment of obstruction of justice,” she said, “after firing the person running the investigation into him at the Department of Justice.”

But she then took a more serious turn, condemning Trump’s new budget and denouncing the dangerous direction she sees the Administration taking the country.

“There is a full-fledged assault on truth and reason,” she said. “Just log on to social media for ten seconds, it will hit you right in the face. People denying science, concocting elaborate hurtful conspiracy theories about child abuse rings operating out of pizza parlors, drumming up rampant fear about undocumented immigrants, Muslims, minorities, the poor … Some are even denying things we see with our own eyes, like the size of crowds. And then defending themselves by talking about quote unquote alternative facts.”

“When people in power invent their own facts and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society,” Clinton continued. “That is not hyperbole, it is what authoritarian regimes throughout history have done.”

“In the years to come there will be trolls galore,” Clinton said. “They may even call you a nasty woman.” The audience cheered at the reference to Trump famously calling Clinton that during a presidential debate, which turned the phrase into a rallying cry for her campaign.

Clinton implored the all-female graduating class to vote, be active participants in society and politics and work towards their values. “Keep going,” she said. “It’s often during the darkest times when you can do the most good.”

 

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