'Don't tempt me' to join 2020 presidential race: Clinton to Trump

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has fired back at Donald Trump after the American president challenged her to join the 2020 US presidential race.

"Don't tempt me. Do your job," Clinton said in a terse tweet on Tuesday in response to an earlier tweet from Trump taunting her about entering the 2020 presidential election.

The former secretary of state has already run for president twice.

In his tweet earlier in the day, Trump mocked Clinton with his typical insult against his former political rival and branded her as "crooked."

Trump also challenged the former secretary of state to join the 2020 US presidential race on condition that she provide an explanation regarding her email scandal, which was related to the use of a private server and email accounts during her tenure in the US administration.

​Clinton was accused of "culling out" some 30,000 of her personal and private emails without following the correct National Archives procedures.

Clinton repeatedly blamed Russia for losing the election to Trump in 2016, claiming that Moscow had colluded with her rival. The allegations, however, have been denied by both Trump and the Kremlin.

Clinton has on several occasions announced that she will not be running for the 2020 election.

"I'm not running, but I'm going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe," she told New York’s News 12 in March. "I want to be sure that people understand I'm going to keep speaking out. I'm not going anywhere."

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Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has for the first time ruled out running for the country's president in 2020.

The former secretary of state has been increasingly speaking out against Trump recently after the US House launched its formal impeachment inquiry into the incumbent over a whistle-blower's complaint alleging that he had called on Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic front-runner in the 2020 election.

The White House released last week a partial memo of a July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, showing that Trump had asked Zelensky to “look into” Biden and his son, Hunter, with help from his administration. 

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President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, a report says.

Trump reportedly urged Zelenskiy about eight times in the phone call to work with his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate government corruption involving the Bidens, warning that he would not give Ukraine the promised military aid in case he refused.

He has denied wrongdoing, claiming that he held up the aid because he wanted other countries to contribute more to Ukraine's defense, while Democrats argue the move amounted to the president seeking help from a foreign power against a political rival.

According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, nearly half of Americans believe Trump should be impeached.

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