Former Secretary of State and Democratic nominee Hilary Clinton has eviscerated President Trump in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, calling his time in office a "failure".

Clinton questioned how anyone could continue to support President Trump in the face of his response to the"historic moments" America is currently experiencing;

“And it may well be that a leader like [Donald] Trump, who depends upon distraction, has finally been brought down to Earth because people are watching in real time what is happening and how inadequate his response has been to these historic moments.” She told the Los Angeles Times.

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Of Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, Clinton said;

"What has been so surprising to me is how he can barely make an effort to rise to the occasion. I truly don’t think he can get out of his own way. Everything has to be all about him. If it’s about a terrible pandemic with an unprecedented virus, he tries to ignore it, tries to keep the attention on himself.

"Then when it becomes impossible to do that, he tries to seize the moment and turn it into a daily rally, like he loves to do."

And regarding the President's response to the death of George Floyd - and subsequent protests against police brutality and systemic racism - Clinton said;

"Then when we have a terrible killing like we did in Minneapolis, he makes some steps toward — in the very early hours after we all saw that horrific video — to look like he’s going to be empathetic, to look like he’s going to try to talk about this stripping bare of the continuing racism and inequities of law enforcement and justice system. And then he pivots again because he’s not comfortable doing that.

"He doesn’t have even the minor amount of empathy to fake it, to look like he is concerned, and he reverts to the belligerence and the threat-making and the photo-opping, all the tried-and-true tactics that feed his need for control and dominance and attention."

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Hillary Clinton was then asked about a tweet she wrote condemning Trump's "horrifying use of presidential power" in order to get a photo-op with a bible.

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She said, "It was beyond my comprehension. We have never seen anything like this. He is without shame. It is a mystery why anybody with a beating heart and a working mind still supports him."

The LA Times' full interview with Hillary Clinton will run on July 2.

Hillary Clinton questions how 'anybody with a beating heart' can still support Trump