Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appears eager to pre-emptively frame a Republican victory in the 2024 election as the result of Russian meddling.
The 75-year-old Democrat appeared in a Sunday episode of Jen Psaki's MSNBC show, where she once again intimated that the 2016 election was decided by Slavic specters contra the American people, claiming that "the Russians have proved themselves to be quite adept at interfering, and if [Russian President Vladimir Putin] has a chance, he'll do it again."
Clinton suggested months ahead of her landslide 2016 loss that the Democratic National Committee leak, which revealed an organizational effort to ice out her then-rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), had been the work Russian intelligence services. The ostensible success of the contested claim that Russians had a hand in her post-leak embarrassment eventually gave way to a broader Russian interference narrative that ultimately hamstrung former President Donald Trump throughout his four years in office.
