In a scathing critique, Hillary Clinton unleashed a barrage of criticism against the Trump administration, particularly targeting its handling of a Signal chat leak.
In an essay published by the New York Times, Clinton, the former Democratic presidential candidate and secretary of state, repeatedly labeled the administration's policies as "dumb."
Clinton's essay was a pointed rebuke of President Donald Trump and his administration, which she described as both careless and lacking intelligence. "Its not the hypocrisy that bothers me; its the stupidity. Were all shocked shocked! that President Trump and his team dont actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws," Clinton asserted.
She further criticized the administration for endangering military personnel by discussing sensitive military plans on a commercial messaging app, inadvertently including a journalist in the conversation. According to Fox News, Clinton's remarks were a response to revelations from The Atlantic that editor Jeffrey Goldberg had been mistakenly added to a group chat discussing potential military actions in Yemen.
Clinton, who faced scrutiny during her 2016 presidential campaign over her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state, took to X earlier in the week, expressing disbelief at the situation with the message, "You have got to be kidding me." In her essay, she contrasted her tenure as the first secretary of state under President Barack Obama, where she claimed to have employed "smart" power, with what she described as the "dumb power" approach of the Trump administration. "Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trumps America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless," she wrote.
Clinton's critique extended to specific policies, including the Trump administration's reduction of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the closure of embassies and consulates, and layoffs affecting intelligence agencies. Her essay hammered home the theme of incompetence, labeling various actions by Trump's team as "not smart," "dumb power," and "dumb and dangerous."
She also drew a comparison between the Trump administration's government efficiency initiative, DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), and her husband's efforts in the 1990s. "During the Clinton administration, my husbands Reinventing Government initiative, led by Vice President Al Gore, worked with Congress to thoughtfully streamline bureaucracy, modernize the workforce and save billions of dollars. In many ways it was the opposite of the Trump administrations slash-and-burn approach. Today they are not reinventing government; theyre wrecking it," Clinton argued.
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