Hillary Clinton slams panelist after he mocks her anti-Trump remarks: ‘I don’t like him’

MUNICH, GERMANY: At the Munich Security Conference, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivered a highly charged rebuke of President Donald Trump’s leadership and policies.

She asserted that he had "betrayed" Western values and international alliances. Her comments came during a panel discussion where another participant mocked her criticism of Trump, prompting an intense back-and-forth that drew attention at the European forum.

Hillary Clinton’s rebuke of Trump at Munich Security Conference

Clinton launched into a sharply worded critique of Trump during the panel, accusing him of “betraying the West” and aligning himself with models of “unaccountable power” rather than the democratic values upheld by Western nations. 

She directly charged Trump with having “betrayed the West, he’s betrayed human values, he’s betrayed the NATO charter, the Atlantic charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” According to her, these betrayals represented a fundamental departure from shared principles underpinning transatlantic cooperation.

Clinton asserted that Trump was “modeling himself after Vladimir Putin." She emphasized that none of the panelists onstage would choose to live under a system with the levels of unaccountability she associated with Putin’s leadership, and implied Trump was seeking similar power "with impunity."

Co-panelist Petr Macinka, the deputy prime minister of the Czech Republic, reacted dismissively to her remarks. “I think you really don’t like him,” Macinka quipped.

Clinton responded, “That is absolutely true, Not only do I not like him, I don’t like him because of what he’s doing to the United States and the world, and I think you should take a hard look at it if you think there’s something good that will come of that.”

Hillary Clinton's exchange with panelist on Trump

Macinka’s remarks sparked a back-and-forth exchange that drew some chuckles from the audience. He argued that what Trump was doing amounted to a “reaction” to “some policies that really went too far” for “regular people.”

Clinton pressed him to provide specific examples, prompting Macinka to cite the “woke revolution” and cancel culture. “This is something that went too far,” he added, after describing the belief that there are more than two genders as a “social construct.”

“But does that justify selling out the people of Ukraine?” Clinton shot back, challenging his argument and tying it to broader foreign policy concerns. “Can I finish my point? I’m sorry it makes you nervous,” Macinka replied, as the tense exchange between the two continued.

Clinton responded that she was not nervous about Trump, and the discussion then shifted to the broader issues surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war.