Hillary Clinton said it was a ‘terrible moment’ for America Monday night as another indictment was issued against former President Donald Trump.
Trump’s 2016 presidential rival was appearing on MSNBC alongside Rachel Maddow when news broke that the Fulton County district attorney’s office had handed down another lengthy set of charges against Trump and some of his compatriots for some of their actions pertaining to the 2020 election.
Though the former Secretary of State appeared visibly giddy as news broke, she went on to say it was a moment of ‘profound sadness that we have a former president who has been indicted for so many charges that went right to the heart of whether or not our democracy would survive.’
‘He set out to defraud the United States of America and the citizens of our nation,’ she said.
Clinton added she would ‘wait to see what the indictments themselves say,’ but ‘I don’t know that anybody should be satisfied. 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,’ she said.
.@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
Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, announced charges Monday night. The grand jury was investigating the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state where Joe Biden narrowly beat Donald Trump.