Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, spoke with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her podcast about the US Capitol rebellion earlier this month and hinted that Russian President Vladimir Putin may have received updates about the chaos of President Trump.
Clinton, who hosts the podcast, “You and Me Both,” told Pelosi that he would be interested in obtaining President Trump’s phone records to see if he was on the phone with Putin while the Capitol was being breached.
Clinton lost to Trump in 2016 and said it is clear that Trump despises democracy, but its true depth may never be known. She said the president had “other agendas” while in the White House and hopes that one day it will be known who exactly the president was “in debt” and “who is pulling his strings”.
“I would love to see his phone records to see if he was talking to Putin the day the insurgents invaded our Capitol,” she said. She asked Pelosi if she believed the country would benefit from a 9/11 commission-type investigation to investigate what exactly led to the deadly mutiny.
Pelosi said she is in favor of such a commission and she remembers telling the president that, “With you, Mr. President, all roads lead to Putin.”
“I don’t know what Putin has about him politically, financially or personally, but what happened last week was a gift to Putin, because Putin wants to undermine democracy in our country and around the world,” said Pelosi. She said those who participated in the riot were “Putin’s puppets”.
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“So, yes, we should have a 9/11 commission and there is strong support in Congress to do that,” she said.
Representatives from Pelosi and Clinton did not immediately respond to an out-of-hours e-mail from Fox News.
The ex-diplomat’s suggestion that an incumbent president could have interacted in some way with a foreign leader during such a difficult period in the country’s history is remarkable and perhaps an example of how the parties are divided in Washington. Trump supporters often link President-elect Joe Biden to China.
Fox News contributor Byron York retweeted a clip from the podcast and wrote: “There was an investigation in the House. A Senate investigation. A special investigation by the prosecutor with all the powers of law enforcement. Obsessive media inquiries. None found what Hillary Clinton wanted to find. So she wants another one … “
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Clinton called the violation an “invasion” while Congress was “doing the work of Democracy” and certifying an election. Earlier this month, she offered her support for Trump’s impeachment a second time, but said the root cause of the problem that led to the Capitol riot last week – white supremacy – will still remain.
She wrote in a Washington Post article that the violent protest “was the tragically predictable result of complaints of white supremacy” that she said were fueled by Trump’s rhetoric.
“Getting Trump out of office is essential and I believe he should be impeached,” wrote Clinton. “The members of Congress who joined him to subvert our democracy must step down, and those who conspired with domestic terrorists must be expelled immediately. But that alone will not remove white supremacy and extremism from America.”
Ronn Blitzer of Fox News contributed to this report