Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took swipes at former President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin during her portrait unveiling Tuesday.
September 26, 2023, 5:23 PMFormer Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stands next to her portrait during its unveiling, at the State Department in Washington, Sept. 26, 2023.At an event Tuesday highlighting her contributions to American diplomacy as the 67th secretary of state, Hillary Clinton barbed her political rivals, issuing thinly veiled criticisms of her one-time presidential opponent Donald Trump and taking direct aim at Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
"We had burned so bridges with our allies and our friends, so reinstating a foreign policy that plays to the best of American values, that puts our interests and security front and center but does it in a way that actually brings people to us, not pushes them away -- would have been thought to be extremely difficult, and indeed it was," she said at the State Department ceremony. "But it was accomplished.
Before the veil was dropped from her portrait, which depicts the former first lady standing in front of an American flag, Clinton commented that it had been a long time since she had seen the painting "between Covid, between not wanting to finish it during the last administration," drawing laughter from the crowd of State Department employees and other guests.
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