Bill Clin­ton blasts Trump as Amer­i­cans mark nation’s 250th anniver­sary

For­mer Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton took a swipe at Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in a state­ment post­ed to X mark­ing the nation’s 250th birth­day, urg­ing Amer­i­cans to reject divi­sion and embrace the coun­try’s found­ing ideals with­out men­tion­ing Trump by name.In the state­ment, released Sat­ur­day, Clin­ton reflect­ed on the nation’s found­ing and warned that the Unit­ed States was expe­ri­enc­ing anoth­er peri­od of deep polit­i­cal division.TOP HIGHLIGHTS FROM TRUMP’S LATE NIGHT JULY 4 ADDRESS: ‘NO DREAM IN HISTORY IS BIGGER’ ”Today, we cel­e­brate this mile­stone amid anoth­er peri­od of deep divi­sion, renewed ques­tions about Amer­i­ca’s future and role in the world, and seri­ous threats to our own insti­tu­tions and to our democ­ra­cy itself,” the for­mer pres­i­dent wrote.Clinton, whose wife, for­mer Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Clin­ton, was defeat­ed by Trump in the 2016 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, did not men­tion the pres­i­dent by …