Hillary Clinton talks Trump impeachment inquiry as audience chants 'lock him up'

"We've known for a long time that he was a corrupt businessman who cheated people."
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Hillary Clinton talks Trump impeachment inquiry as audience chants 'lock him up'
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It must be a refreshing change for Hillary Clinton to hear a different version of a chant she's far too familiar with. Instead of "lock her up," the audience on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert gave their chant a small edit.

"Lock him up," they said.

It was all Colbert's fault, who had asked Clinton, "Is it time to — dare I say — lock him up?" in reference to the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump which launched last week in the House of Representatives.

"I believe strongly that this particular incident has had such a huge impact because we've known for a long time that he [Trump] was a corrupt businessman who cheated people, and we've known that he and his campaign asked for aid from Russia, we've known that," said Clinton.

"But to see him in the office of the president putting his own personal and political interest ahead of the national security of our country just pierced through whatever confusion or denial people had. And, at that point, Speaker Pelosi rightly said this is something we have to investigate and that's what's going on."

Rachel Thompson, sits wearing a dress with yellow florals and black background.
Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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