Former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton had a single-word response to former President Donald Trump’s quoting of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a 2024 presidential campaign rally in Durham, New Hampshire, on Saturday, December 16.
Did Hillary Clinton call Donald Trump ‘a puppet’?
Clinton, Trump’s defeated Democratic rival in the 2016 election, shared on X a Washington Post report on Trump’s widely condemned comment captioning the link: ‘Puppet.’
What Trump said
Trump at the event, in his latest praise of his former Russian counterpart, quoted Putin as saying: ‘It shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy.
‘They’re all laughing at us,’ Trump added.
Trump’s admiration for the Russian strongman goes back years with him once appealing to Moscow for help in his 2016 campaign against Clinton.
Trump also took Putin’s word over that of U.S. intelligence agencies after they concluded that Russia interfered in that election in his favor.
At the same rally at the weekend, clear GOP front-runner Trump drew fierce backlash for claiming immigrants are ‘pouring’ into the United States and ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’
