Former President Bill Clinton‘s attempt to pin the blame on former President Donald Trump for the death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley backfired after his comments were used as a soundbite by the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign.
Clinton, who has been dispatched to Georgia to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris, was trying to make a broader case that Trump is responsible for her death because he told Republicans in Congress to vote against an immigration bill earlier this year.
“Trump killed the bill. The bill was being written by senior Republicans in the Senate, and he killed the bill. Why?” Clinton said during a stop in Fort Valley, Georgia.
Trump’s campaign clipped the second part of Clinton’s comment in a post to X, deploying it on social media, where it then was recirculated by Trump-friendly surrogates and supporters.
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