Clinton attacks Trump, recalls Nixon's impeachment of justice

May 27, 2017 14:39

Former Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has ripped into US President Donald Trump, drawing parallels between him and former president Richard Nixon whose presidency she said ended in "disgrace"

with his "impeachment" for obstruction of justice.

Clinton, who returned to her alma mater at Wellesley College in Massachusetts yesterday to give a commencement speech 48 years after she graduated, referred to the mood on the campus following Nixon's election as President in 1968.

"And by the way, we were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice after firing the person running the

investigation into him at the Department of Justice," Clinton, 69, said to thunderous cheers from students.

Through her comments on "impeachment" and "obstruction of justice", which drew the loudest cheers, she made a thinly-veiled attack against 70-year-old Trump for firing former FBI Director James Comey who was leading the investigation into links between Trump's campaign team and Russia's meddling in the presidential elections.

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