Hillary Clinton trolls Donald Trump on Twitter following appeals court loss

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published 10 February 2017

Not long after a federal appeals court ruled 3-0 on Thursday against reinstating President Trump's travel ban, Hillary Clinton came onto Trump's most sacred space, Twitter, for some good old-fashioned trash talk.

Clinton didn't even need any letters to mock her campaign foe, who has suffered several court setbacks since signing his executive order two weeks ago. She tweeted her disappointment with the order in late January, saying, "I stand with the people gathered across the country tonight defending our values and our Constitution. This is not who we are." She took a different approach Thursday, jumping from "civil" to "straight savage."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.