Xinhua, Washington :
US President Donald Trump on Saturday denounced allegations of Hillary Clinton who questioned the legitimacy of his victory in last year’s presidential election.
Calling his Democratic presidential rival the “worst of biggest loser of all time,” Trump tweeted that “She just can’t stop, which is so good for the Republican Party.”
“Hillary, get on with your life and give it another try in three years,” he added.
Trump made the remarks a day after Clinton told media that the “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential campaign creates questions over the “legitimacy” of his victory.
Also on Friday in another media interview, Clinton lashed out at Trump and Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore for not taking responsibilities for sexual assault allegations made against them. She said in an interview with WABC radio that by contrast Senator Al Franken, who was accused of forcibly kissing and groping a female broadcaster, had accepted “responsibility” and apologized to the victim.
But the White House argued that there is a clear difference between Franken’s case and that of the president.
“I think in one case specifically, Senator Franken has admitted wrongdoing, and the president hasn’t,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told a press briefing Friday. “I think that’s a very clear distinction.”
In last year’s presidential election, Clinton won the popular vote but Trump prevailed in the Electoral College as a result of narrow wins in U.S. states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin President Trump on Saturday returned to attacking his favorite target: Hillary Clinton, the election foe he vanquished more than a year ago.
“Crooked Hillary Clinton is the worst (and biggest) loser of all time,” the commander in chief tweeted.
Trump continued: “She just can’t stop, which is so good for the Republican Party. Hillary, get on with your life and give it another try in three years!”
It wasn’t clear what, exactly, Trump was responding to. But Clinton recently suggested to Mother Jones that Russian government interference undermined the “legitimacy” of Trump’s win.
“There are lots of questions about its legitimacy,” the 2016 Democratic nominee said in the interview, published this week. “And we don’t have a method for contesting that in our system. That’s why I’ve long advocated for an independent commission to get to the bottom of what happened.”
She added: “Because, look, this is the first time we’ve ever been attacked by a foreign adversary, and then they suffer no real consequences.”Both Trump and Clinton have continued to lob criticisms of one another long after the election. Clinton talked to Mother Jones while promoting her memoir, “What Happened,” while Trump takes to Twitter for his attacks.
“There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING!” the president exclaimed last month.
After winning the Oval Office, Trump signaled he was done with going after Clinton. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways, and I am not looking to hurt them at all,” he told the New York Times.
But Trump has repeatedly urged his own Justice Department to investigate Clinton instead of looking into his campaign’s contacts with Russians. The U.S. intelligence community has accused the Kremlin of spearheading the hacks that led to WikiLeaks publishing troves of emails from Democratic officials.
