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By Zachary Stieber
May 2, 2019
Hillary Rodham Clinton accepts the WMC Wonder Woman Award
onstage at the Women's Media Center 2017 Women's Media
Awards at Capitale on October 26, 2017 in New York City.
(Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Women's Media Center)
Hillary Clinton said in an interview on May 1 that Democrats should call for China to hack President Donald Trump.
The former secretary of state, who lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential election, appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show.
Clinton referenced how Trump jokingly called for Russia to find some of the 30,000 emails that were removed from the private server Clinton used for years to transmit classified information. The report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller could not establish conspiracy or cooperation between Russian actors and the Trump campaign.
The email account of top Clinton aide John Podesta was later hacked and the emails were published by Wikileaks, revealing a number of links between Clinton’s campaign and the media.
“Imagine, Rachel, that you had one of the Democratic nominees for 2020 on your show and that person said, the only adversary of ours that’s anywhere near as good as the Russians is China, so why should Russia have all the fun. And since Russia is clearly backing Republicans, why don’t we ask China to back us.”
“I hereby tonight to ask China—” Maddow said.
“That’s right,” Clinton said, interrupting here. “And not only that, ‘China, if you’re listening, why don’t you get Trump’s tax returns? I’m sure our media would richly reward you.'”
Clinton continued, “Within hours, all of a sudden, the IRS offices are bombarded with incredibly sophisticated cyber tools looking for Trump’s tax returns and then extracts them and then passes them to whatever the new WikiLeaks happens to be, and they start being unraveled and disclosed, nothing wrong with that.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens as former President
Bill Clinton speaks during the annual Clinton Global Initiative conference
at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois on Oct. 16, 2018.
(Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images)
“If you’re going to let Russia get away with what they did and are still doing,” why not “have a great power contest and let’s get the Chinese in on the side of somebody else,” Clinton said. “Just saying that shows how absurd the situation we find ourselves in is.”
It wasn’t clear how many people watched the interview. Maddow, who pushed the Russia collusion theory for over two years, has seen dwindling ratings since the release of the Mueller report vindicated Trump.
Congressional Democrats have been trying to obtain Trump’s tax returns after the president declined to release them, citing an ongoing review by the IRS.
The Treasury Department responded to a “final” April 23 congressional deadline set by a top House Democrat to turn over the returns in a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee.
In an April 23 letter (pdf) to the Committee, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin detailed his constitutional concerns with Neal’s request, describing Neal’s request as “unprecedented.” He said he would provide the committee with a final decision by May 6 after receiving the Justice Department’s legal conclusions.
Mnuchin said he was consulting with the department “due to the serious constitutional questions raised by this request and the serious consequences that a resolution of those questions could have for taxpayer privacy.”
“The Committee’s request has not been denied or granted at this time,” Mnuchin wrote in the letter’s concluding paragraph. “The department cannot act upon your request unless and until it is determined to be consistent with the law.”
Epoch Times reporter Bowen Xiao contributed to this report.
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