Hillary Clinton: 'What Trump really wants' is to 'kill his opposition'

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested on a podcast Friday that her old rival, former President Trump, would be happy to "kill his opposition" if he's re-elected president.

Clinton made those comments on the "Democracy Docket" podcast with host Marc Elias, a Democratic election lawyer who previously served as general counsel on her 2016 presidential campaign. In their conversation, Clinton said Trump models himself after Russian President Vladimir Putin and other dictators, calling the prospect of his return to the White House "very scary."

"Trump was like, you know, just gaga over Putin because Putin does what Trump would like to do: Kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists and others into exile, rule without any check or balance," Clinton said.

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"That’s what Trump really wants," she continued. "And so we have to be very conscious of how he sees the world because, in that world, he only sees strongmen leaders. He sees Putin, he sees Xi, he sees Kim Jong-un in North Korea. Those are the people he is modeling himself after, and we’ve been down this road in our, you know, world history. We sure don’t want to go down that again."

Since her defeat by Trump in the 2016 election, Clinton has repeatedly claimed that Trump does the bidding of Russia and that Putin interfered in the election to ensure her defeat. She has predicted that if Trump defeats Biden in November, he will attempt to withdraw the U.S. from NATO and rule as an authoritarian in the U.S.

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"My view, having negotiated with Putin, and knowing one of the