Hillary Clinton: Trump Thinks He Should Be ‘Above the Law’ and ‘Manipulate the Law’

WAGNER: “Are you optimistic about what the Supreme Court does next?”
Hillary: “I think on this particular issue, if I were the Supreme Court, I wouldn’t want to Wade into this. It is such a good opinion, I would deny cert, let the opinion stand. It is in line with previous opinions. You know, when Trump made the argument about this will hamstring future presidents, well, he is the only one who has been in this position. And he is the only one who has claimed such broad blanket immunity. And we know what his real thoughts are. Remember, ‘I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue, my supporters wouldn’t care.’ He thinks that he should be above the law, that he should be able to manipulate the law. The last time that I checked, despite Trump and his supporters’ efforts to undermine this, we were a nation based on the rule of law, not on the rule of individual men the way that Trump keeps trying to claim.”
WAGNER: “I mean, as someone who ran for the presidency and won the popular vote, is it like — can you even wrap your head around arguing in court that you should be able to kill your — assassinate your political enemies using SEAL Team Six? I mean, how did that argument land with you?”
Hillary: “I mean, he says so many outrageous things that I think a lot of people have stopped listening. And they shouldn’t. They should pay very careful attention to what Trump says. Because if they do, they can see the linkage between what he says and what he tries to do. In his first term, on many occasions he was reined in and even stopped by the people around him and he was stopped because there were people who he put into important positions, who had served in government under prior Republican presidents, who understood the rule of law, who understood the constitutional system, and so much more. They were able to stop him. He will now fill those positions, if ever given a chance, which I hope never happens, with people who are totally members of his cult. And I don’t say that lightly or as a throwaway line, because when I look at people who I know were horrified by January 6th, who were Republicans in the House and the Senate, who have come around to dismissing it, to discounting the horror that they themselves felt as they put themselves under desks, as they ran down hallways, as they tried to escape the mob coming at them, there is something about Trump’s hold on the Republican Party that is frightening.”