Bill Clinton Skewers Trump:
Don't Count The Lies, Count The I's'
Clinton, now 78 and visibly shakier, has been speaking at DNC conventions for four decades.
Aug 21, 2024
Former President Bill Clinton speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Addressing his 12th Democratic National Convention, former President Bill Clinton bashed Donald Trump as self-obsessed and vengeful.
“He mostly talks about himself, right?” Clinton said, during a nearly 30-minute speech in Chicago. “The next time you hear him, don’t count the lies, count the I’s.”
Clinton has spoken at DNC conventions for the past four decades — including one eight years ago when his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, accepted the nomination to face Trump.
Noticeably slower and shakier after dealing with health issues in recent years, Clinton still ad-libbed remarks and mostly read from a paper in front of him, not a teleprompter.
“His vendettas, his vengeance, his complaints, his conspiracies. He’s like one of those tenors, opening before he walks about on stage ... trying to get his lungs open by singing, ‘Me, me, me, me.’ When Kamala Harris is president, every day will begin with, ‘You, you, you, you,’” said Clinton, who added that Harris would govern as “the president of joy.”
Clinton also swiped at Trump’s age. “Two days ago, I turned 78, the oldest man in my family for four generations,” Clinton said. “And the only personal vanity I want to assert is I’m still younger than Donald Trump,” who turned 78 in June.
“What are they supposed to make of these endless tributes to the late, great Hannibal Lecter?” Clinton said, wondering what foreign leaders must think of Trump’s fixation on the fictional cannibal serial killer from “Silence of the Lambs.”
Clinton praised his predecessor, Joe Biden, drawing another contrast with Republicans, who never mention the only other living former GOP president, George W. Bush. Democrats, meanwhile, have embraced Barack Obama and Clinton, whose legacy came under renewed scrutiny amid the 2018 #MeToo movement.
″[Biden] had an improbable turn that made him president, and we were in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crash. He healed our sick and put the rest of us back to work. He strengthened our alliances for peace and security. He stood up for Ukraine. He’s trying desperately to get a ceasefire in the Middle East,” Clinton said.
“And then he did something that’s really hard for a politician to do — he voluntarily gave up political power.”
Recalling Trump’s Attempt To Overturn Election, Democrats Warn He’s ‘Plotting Again’
Several speakers addressed Trump’s 2020 election subversion attempt, as well as the attack on the U.S. Capitol — and warned of more to come.
With a series of speakers focused on Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, Democrats on Wednesday had an ominous message for the months ahead: Trump is “plotting again.”
“He would rather subvert democracy than submit to it,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chaired the congressional Jan. 6 committee, told the Democratic National Convention crowd. “Now he’s plotting again. His campaign proclaims that elections won’t end until the moment of the inauguration. ‘We will win, or it was rigged.’ ‘We win or else.’ This is Donald Trump’s America.”
Trump himself emphasized that same message earlier Wednesday, telling a rally crowd that his win was a foregone conclusion — and reiterating his 2020 message that Democrats only win if they cheat.
“When, if, but when — I have to always say ‘if,’ you know, because they cheat,” Trump said of Democrats. “I would say ‘when’ if they didn’t cheat, but they cheat. That’s the one thing — they’re great at cheating in elections.”
Thompson drew a parallel between Trump’s attempt to overturn voters’ choice in 2020 and Thompson’s father’s own inability to vote due to Jim Crow laws.
“Elections are about choice,” said Thompson, the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee. “Choose democracy, not political violence.”
The key congressional Democrat was part of a string of speakers focused on Trump’s election subversion attempt. Geoff Duncan, a Republican and former lieutenant governor of Georgia, recalled having armed officers outside his house “protecting us from other Republicans” as Trump contested the 2020 results.
“His action disqualified him from ever, ever, ever stepping foot in the Oval Office again,” Duncan said.
After Thompson, Aquilino Gonell, a former sergeant of the United States Capitol Police, recalled being beaten with “a pole attached to the American flag” on Jan. 6 as he protected the Capitol. Trump incited the crowd and “betrayed us,” Gonell said.
Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who famously began cleaning up the Capitol shortly after the attack subsided, admonished the audience.
“Always remember this chaos that we see, it doesn’t have to be this way,” he said. “As a father, I refuse to believe that our kids are doomed to grow up in a broken America,” Kim said.
In the middle of the series of speakers, convention organizers played a video montage showing Trump’s remarks on Jan. 6 — refusing to concede the election and telling the crowd he would accompany them to the Capitol — followed by the crowd of Trump supporters roaring with rage as he tweeted a condemnation of then-Vice President Mike Pence and watched the attack unfold on television.
The video closed with a list of the felonies Trump faces for his election subversion attempt and a caption: “If re-elected, he will never be held accountable.”
Even Bill Clinton Can’t Make Sense Of Trump’s ‘Hannibal Lecter’ Obsession
“What are they supposed to make of these endless tributes to the ‘late, great Hannibal Lecter'?”
Former President Bill Clinton cracked a joke about Donald Trump’s recent obsession with a certain fictional cannibal during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night.
Trump has been invoking “the late, great, Hannibal Lecter” when invoking conspiracies around immigration and crime. The former president has likened migrants to the “Silence of the Lambs” character, pushing the conspiracy theory that other countries are sending “bloodthirsty terrorists, savage gang members, and child predators” to the border “to prey on our people, to prey on you, to prey on everybody.”
The reference has become a trope in his speeches. But its meaning remains unclear, and Clinton took the opportunity to poke fun at it.
“When you send a signal to the other countries, you want them to know, whether they agree with you or not, at least that you’re on the level,” he told the audience. “What are they supposed to make of these endless tributes to the ‘late, great Hannibal Lecter’?”
“President Obama once gave me the great honor of saying I was ‘the explainer in chief,’” he added. “Folks, I’ve thought and thought about it, and I don’t know what to say.”
Clinton, now 78 and visibly shakier, has been speaking at DNC conventions for four decades.
Aug 21, 2024
Former President Bill Clinton speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Addressing his 12th Democratic National Convention, former President Bill Clinton bashed Donald Trump as self-obsessed and vengeful.
“He mostly talks about himself, right?” Clinton said, during a nearly 30-minute speech in Chicago. “The next time you hear him, don’t count the lies, count the I’s.”
Clinton has spoken at DNC conventions for the past four decades — including one eight years ago when his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, accepted the nomination to face Trump.
Noticeably slower and shakier after dealing with health issues in recent years, Clinton still ad-libbed remarks and mostly read from a paper in front of him, not a teleprompter.
“His vendettas, his vengeance, his complaints, his conspiracies. He’s like one of those tenors, opening before he walks about on stage ... trying to get his lungs open by singing, ‘Me, me, me, me.’ When Kamala Harris is president, every day will begin with, ‘You, you, you, you,’” said Clinton, who added that Harris would govern as “the president of joy.”
Clinton also swiped at Trump’s age. “Two days ago, I turned 78, the oldest man in my family for four generations,” Clinton said. “And the only personal vanity I want to assert is I’m still younger than Donald Trump,” who turned 78 in June.
“What are they supposed to make of these endless tributes to the late, great Hannibal Lecter?” Clinton said, wondering what foreign leaders must think of Trump’s fixation on the fictional cannibal serial killer from “Silence of the Lambs.”
Clinton praised his predecessor, Joe Biden, drawing another contrast with Republicans, who never mention the only other living former GOP president, George W. Bush. Democrats, meanwhile, have embraced Barack Obama and Clinton, whose legacy came under renewed scrutiny amid the 2018 #MeToo movement.
″[Biden] had an improbable turn that made him president, and we were in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crash. He healed our sick and put the rest of us back to work. He strengthened our alliances for peace and security. He stood up for Ukraine. He’s trying desperately to get a ceasefire in the Middle East,” Clinton said.
“And then he did something that’s really hard for a politician to do — he voluntarily gave up political power.”
Recalling Trump’s Attempt To Overturn Election, Democrats Warn He’s ‘Plotting Again’
Several speakers addressed Trump’s 2020 election subversion attempt, as well as the attack on the U.S. Capitol — and warned of more to come.
With a series of speakers focused on Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, Democrats on Wednesday had an ominous message for the months ahead: Trump is “plotting again.”
“He would rather subvert democracy than submit to it,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chaired the congressional Jan. 6 committee, told the Democratic National Convention crowd. “Now he’s plotting again. His campaign proclaims that elections won’t end until the moment of the inauguration. ‘We will win, or it was rigged.’ ‘We win or else.’ This is Donald Trump’s America.”
Trump himself emphasized that same message earlier Wednesday, telling a rally crowd that his win was a foregone conclusion — and reiterating his 2020 message that Democrats only win if they cheat.
“When, if, but when — I have to always say ‘if,’ you know, because they cheat,” Trump said of Democrats. “I would say ‘when’ if they didn’t cheat, but they cheat. That’s the one thing — they’re great at cheating in elections.”
Thompson drew a parallel between Trump’s attempt to overturn voters’ choice in 2020 and Thompson’s father’s own inability to vote due to Jim Crow laws.
“Elections are about choice,” said Thompson, the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee. “Choose democracy, not political violence.”
The key congressional Democrat was part of a string of speakers focused on Trump’s election subversion attempt. Geoff Duncan, a Republican and former lieutenant governor of Georgia, recalled having armed officers outside his house “protecting us from other Republicans” as Trump contested the 2020 results.
“His action disqualified him from ever, ever, ever stepping foot in the Oval Office again,” Duncan said.
After Thompson, Aquilino Gonell, a former sergeant of the United States Capitol Police, recalled being beaten with “a pole attached to the American flag” on Jan. 6 as he protected the Capitol. Trump incited the crowd and “betrayed us,” Gonell said.
Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who famously began cleaning up the Capitol shortly after the attack subsided, admonished the audience.
“Always remember this chaos that we see, it doesn’t have to be this way,” he said. “As a father, I refuse to believe that our kids are doomed to grow up in a broken America,” Kim said.
In the middle of the series of speakers, convention organizers played a video montage showing Trump’s remarks on Jan. 6 — refusing to concede the election and telling the crowd he would accompany them to the Capitol — followed by the crowd of Trump supporters roaring with rage as he tweeted a condemnation of then-Vice President Mike Pence and watched the attack unfold on television.
The video closed with a list of the felonies Trump faces for his election subversion attempt and a caption: “If re-elected, he will never be held accountable.”
Even Bill Clinton Can’t Make Sense Of Trump’s ‘Hannibal Lecter’ Obsession
“What are they supposed to make of these endless tributes to the ‘late, great Hannibal Lecter'?”
Former President Bill Clinton cracked a joke about Donald Trump’s recent obsession with a certain fictional cannibal during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night.
Trump has been invoking “the late, great, Hannibal Lecter” when invoking conspiracies around immigration and crime. The former president has likened migrants to the “Silence of the Lambs” character, pushing the conspiracy theory that other countries are sending “bloodthirsty terrorists, savage gang members, and child predators” to the border “to prey on our people, to prey on you, to prey on everybody.”
The reference has become a trope in his speeches. But its meaning remains unclear, and Clinton took the opportunity to poke fun at it.
“When you send a signal to the other countries, you want them to know, whether they agree with you or not, at least that you’re on the level,” he told the audience. “What are they supposed to make of these endless tributes to the ‘late, great Hannibal Lecter’?”
“President Obama once gave me the great honor of saying I was ‘the explainer in chief,’” he added. “Folks, I’ve thought and thought about it, and I don’t know what to say.”
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