Bill Clinton claims he is not like Trump because ‘I couldn’t be elected anything now’

Former President Bill Clinton said he couldn’t get elected to ‘anything’ these days because ‘I just don’t like embarrassing people’ – in direct response to a question about President Donald Trump’s fondness for ‘personal insults.’

‘I couldn’t be elected anything now ’cause I just don’t like embarrassing people. My mother would have whipped me for five days in a row when I was a little boy if I spent all my time badmouthing people like this,’ he said on ‘CBS Sunday Morning.’

Clinton and author James Patterson were on the program to promote their new thriller ‘The President is Missing.’

President Clinton wouldn’t say if he believed the results of the 2016 election, which President Trump won, were tampered with

Reporter Mo Rocca asked the former president: ‘President Trump – this is just factual – is fond of personal insults. I mean, he still refers to Mrs. Clinton as ‘Crooked Hillary’ in tweets.’

‘I don’t like this,’ Bill Clinton said. 

While Patterson chimed in: ‘It’s been effective for him. It’s unbelievable that he became president. But he figured some things out. And I think most people do not like these tweets. They just wish it wouldn’t go that way.’ 

Trump often refers to Hillary Clinton as ‘Crooked Hillary,’ a nickname he popularized during the 2016 presidential election.

The ‘lock her up’ chant that came to characterize his campaign rallies are often cited as the heavy animosity Trump created toward the Democratic presidential nominee.

Clinton says it’s something he deals with whenever he is home in Chappaqua, New York.

‘There’s a Trump supporter here in town that– I walked past his house with my dogs. He had a ‘lock her up’ poster in his front window. And I said to him, ‘If you’re gonna do that to my wife, you make sure the prisons are comfortable. Cause you’re gonna have a lot of company of your supporters in there,” he said.

‘And he said, ‘Obama and Hillary started the second Civil War.’ So, there’s division. But underneath that, there’s a core of fundamental decency that can be really skewed when people feel abused, left out, or looked down on,’ the former president added.

He also defended the media’s coverage of President Trump and the Russian investigation into the 2016 election. 

‘I think they have tried by and large to cover this investigation based on the facts,’ Clinton said. ‘I think if the roles were reversed – now, this is me just talking, but it’s based on my experience! – I think if it were a Democratic president, and these facts were present, most people I know in Washington believe impeachment hearings would have begun already.’ 

But Clinton wouldn’t go far enough to say the election his wife lost was tampered with.

‘I don’t know, I don’t know,’ he replied when asked if the results were fixed.

He did warn about cyber terrorism, however.

‘We got a real serious problem with the cyber terrorism that could go way beyond fixing the elections,’ he said. ‘And those problems will happen faster if we allow our elections to continue to be tampered with by others.’ 

In the interview, Clinton also responded to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-N.Y.) assertion that he should have stepped down from office after his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky was made public.

‘You have to really ignore what the context was,’ he said. ‘But, you know, she’s living in a different context. And she did it for different reasons. But I just disagree with her.

He also said he knew the impeachment proceedings against his wouldn’t succeed.  

‘It wasn’t a pleasant experience. But it was a fight that I was glad to undertake. They knew there was nothing impeachable. And so, we fought it to the end. And I’m glad,’ he told CBS.

Bill Clinton has been sidelined from the 2018 election because of new scrutiny of his past transgressions with women, the New York Times reported.  

He is said to still be so furious about the 2016 contest, the Times reported, that it’s raised ‘concerns that he could go wildly off message in campaign settings’ and harm any candidate he campaigns for. 

The Clinton family has slowly been returning to public life after Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016 

But the Clintons have slowly re-emerged to public life.

A few weeks ago the family turned to a renewed focus on the Clinton Foundation with a huge gala fundraiser in New York that included VIP packages going for up to $100,000 a pop.

All three Clintons – Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea – were there.  

Additionally Bill and Chelsea Clinton released a letter at the time touting the foundation’s work both around the world and in the U.S. as part of an ‘Impact Report’ on their work.

The father and daughter duo touted their work helping farmers in Africa, combating the opioid epidemic in the U.S., and traveling to Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Dominica after the hurricane season wrecked havoc in the Caribbean.

The two sit on the foundation’s board but do not receive a salary.