Hillary Clinton's flashback tweet comes after news reports that the FBI launched an investigation in 2017 into whether President Donald Trump had been secretly working on behalf of Russia.
The former Democratic candidate tweeted a clip from a 2016 presidential debate in which she called her Republican bête noire, Donald Trump, the “puppet” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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During the 19 October 2016 debate, Trump claimed that Putin “has no respect” for Clinton, while the former secretary of state hit back by saying “Well, that's because he'd rather have a puppet as president of the United States”.
As Trump quickly interrupted her, striking back with a “no puppet” line, calling Clinton the puppet instead, the Democratic nominee went on with her verbal assault:
“It's pretty clear you won't admit the Russians have engaged in cyber attacks against the United States of America, that you encouraged espionage against our people, that you are willing to spout the Putin line, sign up for his wish list, break up NATO, do whatever he wants to do and that you continue to get help from him because he has a very clear favourite in this race”, Clinton said.
Social media users have been divided over the “told you so” remark, with some ridiculing her words and suggesting that she just can't get over her loss to Trump:
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