There are a lot of good ideas for protecting America's elections from foreign meddling included in bipartisan legislation, but Senate Republicans, "under orders from the White House," won't consider them, Hillary Clinton said on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show Wednesday night. Clinton suggested that the Trump White House believes Russian interference helped them and doesn't want to ruin a good thing for 2020 — and she tried to gin up a little empathy.
"Imagine, Rachel, that you had one of the Democratic nominees for 2020 on your show," Clinton said, "and that person said: 'You know, the only other adversary of ours who's anywhere near as good as the Russians is China. So why should Russia have all the fun? And since Russia is clearly backing Republicans, why don't we ask China to back us?'" Maddow joined in: "I hereby tonight ask China...." "That's right," Clinton said. "'China, if you're listening, why don't you get Trump's tax returns? I'm sure our media would richly reward you.' Now, according to the Mueller report, that is not conspiracy because it's done right out in the open."
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