President Trump's thuggish threat of violence against his critics | By Joe Lockhart, who was a White House press secretary in former President Bill Clinton's administration, via CNNOpinion
Joe Lockhart was White House press secretary from 1998-2000 in President Bill Clinton's administration. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.Joe LockhartWell, consider this episode from President Bill Clinton's first term. Sen. Jesse Helms, the ultraconservative and Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was asked about whether President Clinton should visit the troops at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
Pete Buttigieg is the human rebuttal to everything Mike Pence stands forRemember back in 2016 when he trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls. Despite dogged attempts from reporters, Trump would not say he would respect the results of the vote on election night. He talked repeatedly about the election being rigged and voter fraud and certainly suggested his voters might take to the streets if the election was"stolen" from him.Stay up to date...Sign up for our new newsletter.
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