Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDemocratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish language ads in Florida The Hill's Campaign Report: Presidential polls tighten weeks out from Election Day More than 50 Latino faith leaders endorse Biden MORE warned Tuesday night that she worries President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE will "wholesale fire" members of his administration who disagree with him after the midterm election, a scenario she cast as evidence to elect Democrats as a check on the president.

Clinton told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that a recent anonymous op-ed in The New York Times and anecdotes in Bob Woodward's recent book provide evidence that Trump is "close to being uncontrollable."

"If we don't have one or both houses of Congress in place, he will be even more uncontrollable and unaccountable," Clinton said. "He will fire people in the White House. He will fire people in his administration who he thinks are crossing him, questioning him, undermining him."

JUST IN: Hillary Clinton tells @Maddow that she predicts that President Trump "is going to wholesale fire people" after the midterms, and "he will be even more uncontrollable" if the Democrats don't flip one or more houses of Congress. pic.twitter.com/FvOsEXDZpv — MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 19, 2018

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Clinton said that during her time as secretary of State in the Obama administration, the president routinely weighed the facts and opinions of his closest advisers before coming to a decision. She said that recent accounts of high-level staffers secretly pushing back against Trump's impulses show that a similar process is not in place now.

"There are people still in there who by their own admission are trying to hold on to prevent even worse things from happening, and at some point, the American public has to say, number one, I may disagree with Democrats, I may disagree with the direction of this administration, but one thing I believe in is we have to have checks and balances," Clinton said. "That's why we have to vote for Democrats in November."

Clinton lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential election. While she has been critical of the Trump administration on Twitter, she has largely remained out of the public spotlight until recently, when Clinton pledged to support certain Democratic candidates in the November midterms.

Trump and his conservative allies still frequently attack Clinton, questioning why the Justice Department is not investigating his 2016 opponent instead of Russian interference in the election and possible collusion between his campaign and Moscow.