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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton: Trump will 'wholesale fire people' after midterm election
Clinton said an anonymous New York Times op-ed was "horrifying" and raised the likelihood that Trump might try a purge of staff he suspects of working against him.
by Dennis Romero / Sep.19.2018 / 1:01 AM ET / Updated 1:27 AM ET
Hillary Clinton predicted Tuesday that President Donald Trump will "wholesale fire people" in the White House and become increasingly unaccountable, if Democrats don't check his power by winning a majority of seats in the House or Senate in the November midterm elections.
Clinton made the remarks during the former secretary of state's appearance on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show."
"What I worry about, Rachel, is that after this election this president is going to wholesale fire people," Clinton said. " ... And if we [Democrats] dont have one or both houses of Congress in place he will be even more uncontrollable and unaccountable. He will fire people in the White House, he will fire people in this administration who he thinks are crossing him, questioning him, undermining him.
Clinton, who ran the State Department during part of the Obama administration, said an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times was "horrifying" and raised the likelihood that Trump might try a purge of staff he suspects of working against him.
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Hillary Clinton: Trump will 'wholesale fire people' after midterm election (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2018
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durablend
(7,462 posts)1. I'm just as concerned
That if we *do* win one or both houses, what's to stop him from going complete apeshit between election day and January? They could just be like "Fuck all of you (citizens) we're burning it all down"
no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)2. A parade of Executive Orders
albeit that can be reversed in Congress.
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)4. ONLY if we get BOTH houses. ...
... otherwise, its just hold status quo for 2 years.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)5. Never forget the Reichstag Fire.
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)3. Yep. There will be a Saturday Night Massacre after the midterms