People Can't Get Over Hillary Clinton's Post-Trump Indictment Interview
People on social media were blown away by the timing of Hillary Clinton’s interview on MSNBC Monday night.
The former secretary of state was scheduled to appear on the network at 9 p.m., which happened to be minutes after a Fulton County grand jury handed up an indictment in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump.
As host Rachel Maddow introduced her guest, Clinton laughed, saying: “I can’t believe this.”
“Yeah, this is not the circumstances in which I expected to be talking to you,” Maddow replied.
“Nor me, Rachel,” Clinton said. “It’s always good to talk to you, but I didn’t think it would be under these circumstances. Yet another set of indictments.”
.@HillaryClinton joins @maddow after a Georgia grand jury returns indictments in 2020 election probe:
"This is a terrible moment for our country to have a former president accused of these terribly important crimes. The only satisfaction may be that the system is working." pic.twitter.com/E2AlT1aOze— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 15, 2023
Earlier, the Maddow Blog teased: “Just to be clear, this is happening whether or not there is certain other news breaking this evening...”
In the interview, Maddow asked Clinton if she felt any satisfaction knowing Trump had likely been indicted, considering her warnings that her 2016 presidential rival would try to end democracy.
“I don’t feel any satisfaction,” Clinton answered. “I just feel great profound sadness that we have a former president who has been indicted for so many charges.”
“We don’t know yet what the charges coming out of Georgia are,” she continued. “But if you stop and think about what the public evidence is, he set out to defraud the United States of America and the citizens of our nation.”
“This is a terrible moment for our country to have a former president accused of these terribly important crimes,” she added.
In a news conference several hours later, District Attorney Fani Willis unveiled more than a dozen felony charges against Trump over a “criminal conspiracy” to hold onto power. Also indicted were 18 allies.
Users of X, former Twitter, had a field day over Clinton’s appearance:
i am going to have this commissioned as a painting pic.twitter.com/twDYwrnAQp
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) August 15, 2023
Look, I don t know which booker got Hillary on the air at @msnbc tonight, but… pic.twitter.com/6qp65wgKbO
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 15, 2023
"Just tell me when to show up next time -- we'll see what he's charged with then."
-- Hillary Clinton, joking to Maddow— Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) August 15, 2023
“Same tbh”—America https://t.co/j0tARxfYCi
— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) August 15, 2023
Talk about Irony!
On the night that Trump is likely to be indicted for the 4th time in less than 5 months, Hillary Clinton was scheduled to appear on Maddow.
Whether you love her or hate her, the irony of the years of the "lock her up chants" culminating in a 4th indictment of… pic.twitter.com/uG47MV3OeA— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) August 15, 2023
Hillary Clinton tells Rachel Maddow, that she feels “profound sadness” for what Trump did to the country. I feel profound sadness that she wasn’t president.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) August 15, 2023
Hillary Clinton gets the last laugh. pic.twitter.com/g4eSKhlZUV
— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) August 15, 2023
BREAKING: Not Indicted Hillary Clinton pic.twitter.com/eqz3g7NoVp
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) August 15, 2023
Just for fun, have Hillary read the indictments on MSNBC.
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) August 15, 2023
And....Hillary Clinton is a guest with Rachel Maddow, planned before there was any knowledge about today's indictments.
Timing, man.— Dr. Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755@mastodon.social) (@jbf1755) August 15, 2023
Gonna play this Hillary clip on repeat for the rest of the night 🤣
(Via @Acyn) pic.twitter.com/7fogtlBtNm— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) August 15, 2023
