Hillary Clinton Warns Against ‘Finger Pointing’ Seconds After Blaming the Right for Tense Political Climate

Hillary Clinton made a half-hearted attempt to lower the political temperature during a Wednesday appearance on Morning Joe, urging viewers to stop “finger-pointing” immediately after blaming her political opponents on the Right for the volatile climate.

“I include myself, we have got to stop demonizing each other,” Clinton said. “I think most of that, right now in our country’s history, is coming, you know, from the right, coming from people who want to dominate. They want their point of view.”

“We have got to stop with the finger-pointing and the scapegoating. We can have legitimate disagreements. How do you provide quality, affordable healthcare to everybody? Let’s figure that out. How do you deal with what’s going to be job loss from AI? Let’s get working on that,” Clinton continued. “That’s what we should be doing, but we should do it in the truth-based reality that we have to live in. Facts and evidence have to matter again, and then we can start having good debates.”

Clinton also took the on-air opportunity to criticize Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling his ideas “crackpot” and asserting that people are dying because of the Trump administration’s MAHA initiatives.

“When I hear people, you know, like Kennedy and others, talking about getting back to a time when we aren’t vaccinating, we’re drinking raw milk — and people didn’t live,” Clinton said, which was followed by gasps and words of agreement from Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski.

Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign against Donald Trump came to be defined, in part, by her description of Trump supporters as “a basket of deplorables.” The former secretary of state has since softened her view of Trump supporters, describing them as merely “confused,” rather than malicious.

“It’s so wrongheaded, it’s so short-sighted, and it’s going to cause deaths,” Clinton said of RFK’s policies.

“These guys literally want to turn the clock back,” she continued. “Too many Americans are listening to this very destructive anti-science tirade that we’re hearing from this administration and it’s going to cost lives.”

When asked about the recent controversy over Jimmy Kimmel and the Federal Communications Commission, Clinton characterized the incident as “very dangerous.”

“It is right out of the authoritarian playbook,” Clinton said. “Use the power of the government to go after corporations and individuals.”

She then seemed to compare President Donald Trump to a king, while also applauding Kimmel for criticizing Republicans, and warned that the Trump administration “are not going to stop, because that’s what authoritarians do.”

“You have to laugh about it so you don’t cry,” Clinton said. “What is happening is so contrary to the founding principles and values this country was built on.”