Hillary Clinton: Trump’s Remarks During Kavanaugh Swearing-In Hurt Integrity Of Supreme Court

Then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to voters in South Carolina a day after her debate with rival candidate Bernie Sanders on February 12, 2016 in Denmark, South Carolina.
Then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to voters in South Carolina a day after her debate with rival candidate Bernie Sanders on February 12, 2016 in Denmark, South Carolina.

Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump transformed the swearing-in ceremony of his Supreme Court nominee into a “political rally” that will further throw into question the “integrity” and “image” of the highest court in this land.

In an interview with CNN, the former secretary of state added that the way the president acted will cause further turmoil in the already turbulent relationship between the American people and the country’s judicial system.

“What was done last night in the White House was a political rally,” Clinton, Trump’s Democratic 2016 election opponent, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “It further undermined the image and integrity of the court, and that troubles me greatly. It saddens me because our judicial system has been viewed as one of the main pillars of our constitutional government.”

Clinton predicted that Americans will react to it according to our current divide, she said.

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