Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons, Cropped by Resist the Mainstream

On Saturday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced student protests while visiting her alma mater, Wellesley College.

Clinton was returning to campus to receive honors after the college named a building after her, however, she was faced with protesters who were protesting a democracy summit on campus, which also featured Clinton. 

Local news outlet ABC10 Boston alleged that students had circulated pamphlets in the days leading up to the summit referring to Clinton at Wellesley's “most beloved war criminal,” and arguing she has “blood on her hands.”

School administrators acknowledged the protest but did not condemn it, with vice president and dean of students Sheilah Shaw Horton saying in a statement, “I encourage all who participate in activism to follow the demonstration policy and be mindful of our Code of Student Conduct so that you remain safe for yourself, and for our community.”

Clinton isn’t a stranger to protests during her visits to American universities. Earlier this year, she was interrupted by protestors while appearing at Columbia University, where students repeatedly called her a “war criminal.”

Her appearance at Wellesley comes just days after a much-maligned appearance on the “Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon, in which she told U.S. voters to “get over” themselves and vote for Biden.

Fallon asked Clinton what she'd say to voters who are “upset” that former President Trump and President Biden are the only two choices.

“Get over yourself. Those are the two choices,” Clinton responded. “One is old, and effective, and compassionate, has a heart and really cares about people. And one is old and has been charged with 91 felonies.” 

“I don't understand why this is even a hard choice, really. I don't understand it,” Clinton continued. “But we have to go through the election and hopefully people will realize what's at stake because it's an existential question. What kind of country we're gonna have, what kind of democracy we can have and people who blow that off are not paying attention because it's not like Trump, his enablers, his empowerers, his allies are not telling us what they want to do. I mean, they're pretty clear about what kind of country they want.”

The response to the comments was not particularly positive. 

“I don’t think it was a very wise statement on her part. How did that work out for her in 2016? I think that’s something that we have to recognize.” said ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith.

“Yes, she won the popular vote. But at the end of the day, she wasn’t the President of the United States. It was him,” Smith continued. “You can look at her not campaigning in Wisconsin in the last days, not campaigning in Pennsylvania in the last days … You can bring up a whole bunch of things. But at the end of the day, the last thing you need to do is to do anything that could agitate a potential voter in this particular election.”