Article snippet: HANOVER, N.H. — Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the struggles between President Trump’s administration and the US House will show ‘‘whether it’s the rule of law or the rule of Trump’’ that the courts and Republicans obey. Speaking at a wide-ranging event held at Dartmouth College, the former US secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee said the Trump administration’s recent defiance of subpoenas and claim of executive authority in its power struggle with Congress will lead to ‘‘big court fights.’’ Those fights, Clinton said, will most likely find their way to the Supreme Court. ‘‘We’ll see whether it’s the rule of law or the rule of Trump that the Republicans in the Congress and in the courts are going to abide by,’’ Clinton said. Time and again in her remarks Wednesday to foreign policy students, Clinton returned to the 2016 election that she ultimately lost to Trump, criticizing the media and the effect that conspiracy theories had on her candidacy. ‘‘Just think about the impact that that one lie, the Pizzagate lie, had,’’ Clinton said, referring to a fake news story suggesting a Washington, D.C., pizza shop played a key role in a child sex trafficking ring that she was said to have run. ‘‘It was a stolen email about a little fundraiser at a little pizza place that the Russians and their allies, including, I would argue, people online who were promoting Trump, took and made into a weaponized attack.’’ The conspiracy theory influenced a Nor... Link to the full article to read more
Hillary Clinton: GOP must choose ‘rule of law’ or ‘rule of Trump’ - The Boston Globe
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