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Speaking at the Centre for Liberal Strategy conference on February 14, Hillary Clinton had plenty to say about the Trump administration, Ukraine, and former US governments.
Clinton said: “I think that the Trump administration’s position toward Ukraine is disgraceful,” noting that the effort to force Ukraine into a surrender deal with Putin was shameful.
Continuing, Clinton added: “I think the effort that Putin and Trump are making to profit off the misery and death of the Ukrainian people is a historic error and corrupt to the utmost degree – I think Trump either doesn’t understand or couldn’t care less about that suffering.”
Talking about the current issues with immigration, Clinton said: “More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this fear year of Trump’s second term.”
Clinton added that there is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration: “It went too far, it’s been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way with secure borders that don’t torture and kill people.”
Speaking about Trump, Clinton said: “He’s betrayed the west, he’s betrayed human values, the NATO Charter, the Atlantic Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“None of us in this room would choose to live under a regime that was so unaccountable that it could act with impunity the way Putin does, except that’s who Trump is modelling himself,” Clinton commented.
Addressing the Ukrainian situation, Clinton concluded: “Give the Ukrainians tomahawks – give them more missiles for their Patriot defence systems – allow them to inflict more damage beyond the border into Russia.”
