MSNBC’s The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle appeared to take some shake-my-damn-head satisfaction in breaking out video clips from the vault showing Donald Trump shaming and threatening Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Resurfacing multiple clips of Trump quotes that have taken on a new relevance this week in light of the superseding indictment in the classified documents case against the former President, Ruhle introduces the video mashup benignly, saying only: “Let’s take a look at some of the things Donald Trump once said about Hillary Clinton and a server.”
The benign introduction is just the length of rope Ruhle presumably believes Trump needs to hang himself in the new context, as Trump’s own words during the 2016 campaign against Clinton eerily echo what prosecutors are now saying Trump himself did.
Ruhle: Let’s remind our audience of some of the things Donald Trump once said about Hillary Clinton and a server pic.twitter.com/4qhKxNBKic
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 28, 2023
As former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance frames the new charges against Trump: “They put Donald Trump squarely in the middle of efforts, laughably unsuccessful if the matter was any less serious, to destroy security video footage he wanted to keep out of the hands of the grand jury.”
Trump, who has made much of his claim that the FBI is a politicized agency that can’t be trusted, relies on purported FBI evidence to support his 2016 accusations against Clinton “bleaching” her private server.
In another clip, he says: “It’s also clear from the FBI report that Hillary Clinton and her top aides knowingly destroyed evidence.”
The superseding Trump indictment also reports that a Trump employee testified that “the boss wanted the server deleted.”
Trump also threatens Clinton with appointing a Special Prosecutor once he is President to investigate Clinton’s email deletions and server bleaching. “If I win,” he says at the debate, “I am going to instruct my Attorney General to get a Special Prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies…”
Today, Trump himself faces multiple charges stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s investigation for actions bearing a striking resemblance to those he accused Clinton of in 2016.
