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Hilary Clinton is seemingly poking some fun at Donald Trumps felony conviction.

The former presidential candidate, 76, appeared to address the former presidents guilty verdict on Thursday, May 30 after taking the podium at the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards in Washington D.C.

In a video shared on X (formerly known as Twitter) of the event, Clinton could be seen getting applause as she took the stage. She thanked the audience before quipping, Anything going on today? appearing to reference his criminal trial. The audience could be heard cheering in response.

She also shared an Instagram post promoting a mug that featured a painted version of herself sipping tea with the words turns out she was right about everything printed on top.

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We recently had some new merch made based on a phrase I hear a lot, she captioned the photo of the mug. The design happened to be finalized today.

The words seemingly stemmed from Clintons previous comments. She previously called Trump an illegitimate president in a CBS Morning interview in 2019 and suggested that he may have had a hand in rigging the 2016 elections in his favor.

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I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they used, from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false stories he knows that there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did, she said at the time.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office argued during Trumps criminal trial that he falsified documents in order to mask hush money payments to Stormy Daniels in the final days of his 2016 presidential election. In falsifying the records, the DA's office argued, Trump was more broadly attempting to bury evidence of an illegal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election.

Trump was ultimately found guilty in a New York court on Thursday, May 30, of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records becoming the first president in history to become a convicted felon.

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Following the guilty verdict, Trump told reporters of the trial, "This was a disgrace. This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt." He also vowed that he was an innocent man and would fight the verdict to the end, per CBS News.

Trump faces up to four years in prison, though he is also eligible for a lesser probation sentence and a fine. He is expected to appeal the verdict.

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Hillary Clinton is a co-producer of the Broadway musical 'Suffs,' which received six nominations at the 77th Tony Awards on Sunday, June 16

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Hillary Clinton is highlighting the historical importance behind the musical Suffs.

Clinton, 76, appeared at the 2024 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 16, to introduce Suffs, the musical from Shaina Taub that the former U.S. senator and secretary of state is credited as co-producer on.

"What a great evening. Now, I have stood on a lot of stages, but this is very special. And I know a little bit about how hard it is to make change, so I'm extremely proud of this original American musical by Shaina Taub now a two-time Tony winner," Clinton said as she received a standing ovation while taking the stage at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater in New York City.

"And of course, it is about some American originals: the suffragists who fought so valiantly for so long to give women in our country the right to vote," she said. "It's almost impossible to think about what a challenge that was, but now it's an election year, and we need to be reminded about how important it is to vote, so please welcome the company of Suffs!"

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Suffs received six nominations at the 77th Tony Awards, with composer Taub, 36, scoring wins in the best book of a musical and best original score categories. The production was nominated for best musical alongside fellow nominees Hell's Kitchen, Illinoise, The Outsiders and Water for Elephants.

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The musical takes place in 1913 and follows suffragists as they organize to ensure American women gain the right to vote, which was granted when Congress passed the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. "Reaching across and against generational, racial, and class divides, these brilliant, flawed women entertain and inspire us with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight," an official synopsis for the musical reads. "So much has changed since the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment over a century ago, and yet were reminded sometimes we need to look back, in order to march fearlessly into the future."

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Clinton is listed as a co-producer on Suffs along with Malala Yousafzai, Jill Furman and Rachel Sussman, according to the musical's website.

The 2024 Tony Awards are airing live fromLincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater in New York City on Sunday, June 16, on CBS and Paramount+.

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It took decades of protest, organized demonstrations and more for the U.S. to enshrine in its constitution that a citizen could not be prevented to vote based on sex. The decision, passed in June 1919 and ratified in August 1920, changed history, and continued to ripple throughout the U.S., creating new waves of the feminist movement.

Looking back more than 100 years, women who advocated for the right to vote, called suffragettes, used sartorial statements to magnify their message. The color white became symbolic of the womens suffrage moment.

Ahead, learn more about the history behind suffragette-white and its incarnations throughout history to today.

Before white became the unifying color that brought the suffrage movement together, many women dating back to the mid-19th century who were active in womens suffrage organizations used the color yellow to symbolize the movement.

In 1869, the suffragettes went to Kansas, and the Kansas state flower is the sunflower, Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, a lecturer at Case Western Reserve Universitys Department of History, said. Yellow became the suffragette color and by the 1890s it would be their official color.

At the time, suffragettes were rallying to ratify state constitutions one by one, traveling to each state to make their case for womens right to vote. Simultaneously, women in England were organizing under the colors green, purple and white. Rabinovitch-Fox notes there were several trans-Atlantic conversations between the movements and its representatives, including Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, leaders of the American movement.

When Paul and Burns came back to the U.S., they start looking for those color schemes. Suffragettes, Rabinovitch-Fox says, were very savvy when it came to the media; they knew the power of dressing for the movement.

White is one of the colors but it didnt become so prevalent until very late, partly because suffrage parades were very colorful, Rabinovitch-Fox explained. Because they were so savvy and understood the media, they themselves sent photographs to newspapers. Alice Paul was very good at saying, We need to create this visual contrast. White was useful for them to do that. Streets were very dark, so if you see a bunch of women in white dresses or light dresses, the contrast [in photos] will be great. They understood that. White is just a more practical color.

The argument to make the suffragette movement more egalitarian was wear a white dress and a yellow bow and youre a suffragist, Rabinovitch-Fox said.

In the United States, the color was seen often when women marched for the right to vote in the latter stages of the movement.

Its also important to note that the color white and whiteness played a key role in the womens suffrage movement. The 19th amendment doesnt guarantee the right to vote, it does say you cannot prevent someone from voting on account of sex. But you can prevent them from voting on account of other reasons, Rabinovitch-Fox said. While prominent Black activists like Ida B. Wells voted in the North following the 19th amendment, Black women, Indigenous women and more waited for years to become active participants in the United States democratic process.

We tend to think of the 19th amendment as the end of the story, but its really not.

Other colors incorporated into the womens suffrage movement were yellow gold, purple and green. Each color, like white, symbolized a particular quality. White was often associated with purity, green with hope and purple with royalty.

To this day, green and purple are still seen during suffragette celebrations. To commemorate the 100-year anniversary since women won the right to vote in the United Kingdom in June 2018, women gathered and waved flags with the purple, white and green colors. Many also wore the tricolor scheme.

Suffragette white still appears as a powerful sartorial statement in contemporary politics, but this is a recent phenomenon. Rabinovitch-Fox credits the 2016 election as a time when white dressing surged, especially among female politicians. Once Clinton adopted it, Rabinovitch-Fox says, it became a way of connecting past struggles with current struggles.

Vice President Kamala Harris has worn suffragette white on several pivotal occasions during her political career. During the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., the future vice president of the United States wore suffragette-white as a symbol, evoking the power of women in politics.

For her historic victory speech after President Joe Biden won the presidency, and Harris won the vice presidency, she wore suffragette white again. She thanked all the women who have worked to secure and protect the right to vote for over a century 100 years ago with the 19th Amendment, 55 years ago with the voting rights act, and now in 2020 with a new generation of women in our country who cast their ballots and continued the right for their fundamental right to vote and be heard.

Vice President Harris further reflected on the occasion, saying, while I might be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last.

During other political occasions, such as the State of the Union address, women who are members of the Democratic Party wore suffragette white as a sartorial statement to address womens reproductive rights.

White makes you stand out. As a woman you stand out in congress, for sure. But a group of women wearing white in congress, thats a statement of power.

Away from Capitol Hill, women still wear suffragette white on historic occasions and celebrations. During the 131st Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., women fashioned white pieces of clothing inspired by the early 20th century to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. The color purple was also featured on sashes, hats and more.

The musical Suffs is nominated for six Tony Awards at the 2024 awards show on June 16. The musical relays the historic events of the early 20th century, leading up to the ratification of the19th amendmentto the constitution in 1920.

The show celebrated its opening night on April 18 in New York City. Hillary Clinton, who is a producer of the show, attended the event wearing a symbolic sartorial statement. The former first lady and secretary of state chose to wear suffragette white to the show, as a symbol of the work women did, and continue to do, for womens rights.

Although the movement began more than 100 years ago, womens suffrage and the colors that symbolism the political and social goals of women still carry weight. They are a sartorial symbol of progress, hope and the eternal desire for equality the medium is the message.

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About Suffs

Based on suffragists and the American women's suffrage movement, Suffs is a stage musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Shaina Taub.

It primarily focuses on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution in 1920, which granted the right to vote to some women, primarily white women.

April 2022 saw its off-Broadway debut at The Public Theater.

On April 18, 2024, the production had its Broadway debut at the Music Box Theatre.

Critics gave it favorable reviews, and it was nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, at the 77th Tony Awards.

Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as activist Malala Yousafzai, are on the production team.

Producer of musical Suffs Hillary Clinton took the stage this evening to introduce the musical to the audience.

"I am extremely proud of this original American Musical," she says to the crowd who greeted her with a standing ovation and applause.

"It's an election year and we need to be reminded of how important it is to vote," she added before introducing Suffs.

Angels in America star Jeffrey Wright is presenting the award for Best Play to Stereophonic.

The play stars Will Brill, Andrew R. Butler, Juliana Canfield, Eli Gelb, Tom Pecinka, Sarah Pidgeon, and Chris Stack.

Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Bebe Neuwirth are participating in a special tribute in honor of Chita Rivera, who died in January at the age of 91.

They are honoring Rivera's illustrious seven-decade career in theater, having been in several musicals like Chicago, Bye Bye Birdie, West Side Story, and many more.

Ariana DeBose also joined in on the performance, dancing to America from West Side Story.

Actor Jim Parsons presented the award for Best Revival of a Play to Appropriate.

The play stars Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, and Michael Esper, among many others.

Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad took the stage as their characters in Guttenberg! The Musical in a comedy strip about what a revival of a musical is.

"It means that our show is already a classic," Rannells's character said.

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The former first lady, presidential candidate and US secretary of state, and now Professor Hillary Clinton, recently went out of her way to accuse Columbia students and others protesting the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in their homeland of historical ignorance.

I have had many conversations with a lot of young people over the last many months now, Clinton saidon MSNBC last month. They dont know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or frankly about history, in many areas of the world, including in our own country.

How should we gauge Clintons assessment of students in the very same university where she is now teaching as a professor of practice?

Clinton was on the US network to promote a new musical she has produced, Suffs, about American suffragists and their fight for voting rights.

Even before she became a Broadway musical producer, Clinton had a long and distinguished career in what is euphemistically called public service in this country, which might seem to justify her capacity to pass such harsh and categorical judgements on younger Americans now risking their lives and livelihoods to protest the states active engagement in a colossal genocide halfway around the globe.

It is, of course, not fair to single out Clinton in a deeply corrupt political culture, but she is a leading Zionist in American politics.

So exposing genocidal Zionism, as these students are doing, for what it is and what it has always been - and what it is doing right now - does not sit well with the former secretary of state, who is known in the US for never seeing a war she did not like.

Clinton was a highly active first lady when her husband was president (1993-2001), advocating for various worthy causes. Twice, she was a serious presidential contender, once against Barack Obama during Democratic primaries, and once against Donald Trump in general elections - and she served as her countrys top diplomat under Obama.

In 2023, she became a professor at Columbia Universitys School of International and Public Affairs. She has also authored a number of popular books, including her memoirs Living History (2003), Hard Choices (2014) and What Happened (2017).

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Thus, her considered judgment, expressed publicly, about our students protesting their universitys financial investments in a genocidal, settler-colonial state cannot be readily dismissed. We need to consider the matter more carefully, especially since Clinton herself once threatened to totally obliterate Iran, a country of some 80 million human beings, if it came anywhere near Israel.

Clintons active Zionist record notwithstanding, why would she, with all her erudition and achievements, dismiss an entire generation of American students, alongside their parents and teachers, as ignorant?

Who is ignorant: someone trapped inside a self-serving body of ideological convictions, or someone liberated from such limitations?

Let us put her own sustained record of warmongering on the table: there is a reason she is known as Hillary the Hawk.

From Iraq in 2002, to Pakistan throughout the Obama years, to Afghanistan in 2009, to Libya in 2011, to Syria in 2012, she is proven and documented to have been a consistently wild warmonger, promoting American military domination around the globe. Her vast erudition and knowledge are of the sort that when push comes to shove, and she is in a position of power, she opts to drop bombs on people rather than reason with them.

During her MSNBC interview, Clinton referenced the Israel-Palestine deal that my husband (her phrase) backed in 2000, and that, by her estimation, former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat turned down because he was afraid he would be killed, as former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated after signing a peace treaty with Israel.

From this false premise, she then targeted protesting students and teachers: Propaganda is not education. Indeed! But who is doing the propagandising on MSNBC - Clinton, or any of the students at Columbia and other campuses?

The form of knowledge that Clinton exudes is a closed-circuit system. It just talks to itself. It is her husband who wanted to make peace and the Palestinians who thwarted the process. The Clintons are reasonable and fair, and their opponents are terrorist Islamists.

This is the sort of self-indulgent knowledge with which leading American politicians humour themselves. They dislike these protesting students, because they have punctured that false pretence.

The students know this history, but they also have access to additional archives that Clinton seems to lack. So who is ignorant: someone trapped inside a self-serving body of ideological convictions, or someone liberated from such limitations?

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What stands between the two sides Clinton manufactures are the Palestinian people themselves - along with their thoughts, convictions and sufferings. Clinton blames professors for indoctrinating students with propaganda instead of teaching them. Which ones, exactly: Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad, Lila Abu-Lughod, Wael Hallaq, Nadia Abu El Haj - or before them all, the late Edward Said? Except for Said, these are all now Clintons own colleagues at Columbia. Has she ever bothered to talk with them?

The closed-circuit knowledge from which Clinton speaks and accuses these students is incurably monolingual, unlike many of the protesters she criticises, who are fluent in various languages.

This pathologically monolingual limitation, of course, is not Clintons fault.This malady is endemic to the entirety of the American foreign policy establishment. And while Clinton is a well-read, well-spoken, intelligent and articulate person - who next to Trump, looks like a descendant of Christine de Pizan or Mary Wollstonecraft - this is all part of an imperial loop, hermetically sealed to the miseries of the outside world that she and her ilk have been instrumental in creating.

In her limited imperial imagination, the Israelis are the rich friend and the Palestinians the poor enemy. The students occupying university campuses, who look like a nuisance to her, have brought their broader knowledge right to her office window at Columbia.She appears woefully unaware of the moral power of this turning tide.

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