Donald Trump still cant escape Hillary Clinton
As Donald Trump takes the oath of office Friday, a shadow will loom over his inauguration. Is it his multitudinous conflicts of interest and almost certain violation of the Emoluments Clause? Well, yes, but there’s another shadow: Hillary Clinton.
Clinton may not have been the right person to beat Trump in November, but since then, she’s been the perfect person to lose to him. Despite her own efforts to bow out discreetly — to the margins of the Democratic Party, to out-of-the-way bookstores, to the woods — he can’t get her out of his head. Even now, he seems incapable of moving on from an election that he won.
Who can blame him? Clinton won the popular vote decisively, by almost 2.9 million votes, or 2.1 percentage points. Trump is the third-worst-performing winner in presidential history. He edged out only Rutherford B. Hayes and John Quincy Adams, who both won in the electoral college and lost the popular vote. Sad!
And he’s invoked Clinton in tweet after deranged tweet since the election, asserting that actually, he meant to lose the popular vote, and no, really, he did, and by the way, he won the popular vote anyway, because of “millions of people who voted illegally.” (That latter claim was, of course, accompanied by no evidence, because it was patently false.)
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