--- title: Donald Trump on Twitter: President Slams Hillary Clinton description: President Donald Trump has a busy week ahead of him, but his early-morning tweets suggest there was something else on his mind: Clinton canonical: https://time.com/4722782/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-election-twitter/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-03T14:48:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:10:09.985Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Is Still Attacking Hillary Clinton 5 Months After the Election og:description: "Did Hillary Clinton ever apologize for receiving answers to the debate?" og:url: https://time.com/4722782/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-election-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt234fa9f02f33d1f5/6988c0f0fb4eac1134891590/gettyimages-661641496.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: President Trump Meets With The National Association of Manufacturers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Is Still Attacking Hillary Clinton 5 Months After the Election twitter:description: "Did Hillary Clinton ever apologize for receiving answers to the debate?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt234fa9f02f33d1f5/6988c0f0fb4eac1134891590/gettyimages-661641496.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Is Still Attacking Hillary Clinton 5 Months After the Election > Sponsored content. 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President Trump signed two executive orders today that aim to boost U.S. manufacturing by addressing foreign trade. Pool—Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting with the National Association of Manufacturers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House March 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed two executive orders today that aim to boost U.S. manufacturing by addressing foreign trade. Pool—Getty Images Pool—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 3, 2017 2:48 PM UTC [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/tag/donald-trump/) has a busy week ahead of him — including [meetings with world leaders](http://time.com/4722582/sisi-trump-egypt-united-states-obama/) and a vote for his [Supreme Court nominee](http://time.com/4722641/senate-vote-neil-gorsuch-livestream/) — but his early-morning tweets suggest there was something else on his mind: Hillary Clinton. “Did Hillary Clinton ever apologize for receiving the answers to the debate? Just asking!” [Trump tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/848857910297980928) early Monday. More than 70 days into the Trump presidency and nearly five months after the election, Trump is still reminding his followers that former [interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile ](http://time.com/4705515/donna-brazile-russia-emails-clinton/) sent questions for a CNN town hall to Clinton prior to her appearance. That nugget was revealed in a series of leaked emails posted to WikiLeaks. Brazile said in a [recent piece for TIME](http://time.com/4705515/donna-brazile-russia-emails-clinton/) that she regrets having sent the email. “My job was to make all our Democratic candidates look good, and I worked closely with both campaigns to make that happen,” she wrote. “But sending those emails was a mistake I will forever regret.” The President also sent other tweets [Monday morning](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/848841326183534594), largely focused on what he has said was government surveillance of the Trump campaign throughout the election. The chair of the [House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes](http://time.com/4715399/devin-nunes-russia-investigation-house-intelligence-committee/), has said the Trump team’s communications were apparently swept up as part of a separate collection, but that there is no evidence that Trump Tower was “wiretapped” as the President has claimed. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/848841326183534594) On Monday, Trump also tweeted that [Fox News](http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-and-friends/) was reporting that there was “electronic surveillance of Trump, and people close to Trump.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/848880519458717698) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4722782/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-election-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4722782/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-election-twitter/"},"headline":"President Trump Is Still Attacking Hillary Clinton 5 Months After the Election","datePublished":"2017-04-03T14:48:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:10:09.985Z","description":"\"Did Hillary Clinton ever apologize for receiving answers to the debate? 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