Hillary Clinton takes yet another dig at Donald Trump in new new memoir, saying the ‘flagrantly sexist’ candidate won the 2016 election.
Clinton’s memoir settles scores with a range of competitors and opponents, while providing unsparing language for Trump, who Clinton complains stalked her on a debate stage to the point where it made her ‘skin crawl’ and she wanted to say ‘back up, you creep.’
In another excerpt reported by the New York Times, Clinton says sexism ‘played a role’ in the election where she suffered a historic defeat.
‘This has to be said,’ Clinton writes.
‘Sexism and misogyny played a role in the 2016 presidential election. Exhibit A is that the flagrantly sexist candidate won.’
Hillary Clinton described her loss as ‘devastating’ and said that Donald Trump won because he was able to ‘stoke the anger’ of the voters in way she was unable to. She is seen above Thursday speaking at the event in Manhattan
Clinton didn’t shy from playing up gender issues during the campaign. She blasted Trump repeatedly after the emergence of the infamous ‘p***y tape where he got caught on tape making crude comments about women.
She also campaigned with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who spoke about Trump insulting her weight and cut a campaign ad.
‘He calls women ugly, disgusting, nasty all the time,’ Clinton said on the stump in Florida during the final days of the campaign.
Clinton said in the campaign Trump had a ‘penchant for sexism,’ and Trump called her a ‘nasty woman,’ an insult Clinton supporters defiantly embraced.
She also suggested that Mr Trump was un-Christian and that his ‘cruelty’ did not come from Biblical teachings. She waves to the crowd in Manhattan on Thursday
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump listens as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton answers a question from the audience during their presidential town hall debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., October 9, 2016. Clinton complains stalked her on a debate stage to the point where it made her ‘skin crawl’
Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, speaks as Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential nominee, stands during the second U.S. presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. Clinton complains stalked her on a debate stage to the point where it made her ‘skin crawl’
Clinton writes of Trump in the book: ”You’ve got to give it to Trump — he’s hateful, but it’s hard to look away from him.’
Clinton also settles scores with Bernie Sanders, Vice President Joe Biden, NBC’s Matt Lauer, and others in the book, which goes on sale next week.
Clinton has revealed that she was so distraught after losing the election that she was unable to speak.
The former Democratic candidate said that she was in the car on the way home from giving her losing speech when she ‘felt the whole weight of it upon me’.
She said that she had ‘no internal resources left’ and crumbled.
‘Sexism and misogyny played a role in the 2016 presidential election. Exhibit A is that the flagrantly sexist candidate won,’ Clinton writes
‘Sexism and misogyny played a role in the 2016 presidential election. Exhibit A is that the flagrantly sexist candidate won,’ Clinton writes
Clinton described her loss as ‘devastating’ and said that Donald Trump won because he was able to ‘stoke the anger’ of the voters in way she was unable to.
She also suggested that Mr Trump was un-Christian and that his ‘cruelty’ did not come from Biblical teachings.
Clinton spoke out in the week ahead of the launch of her memoir about the election, ‘What Happened’.
Clinton spoke out in the week ahead of the launch of her memoir about the election, ‘What Happened’
The event took place at the Riverside Church in Manhattan and was a fundraiser for Camp Olmsted, a summer camp in upstate New York for underprivileged children.
Clinton told the packed church that during the election ‘there was a misconnection between who I am and what I believe and the campaign you saw’.
She said: ‘I’m just not wired to think that the best way for a leader to bring people together is to stoke anger and to feed that anger.
‘The kind of leadership I was offering was not satisfying enough for certain people. It wasn’t enough for me to say I understand if I didn’t display more anger so I could feel I got their anger.
‘It was something I struggled with because I don’t think anger is a strategy. Leaders, in church or politics or else should be looking to find common ground and not create scapegoats and stoke hatred and bigotry’.
The event took place at the Riverside Church in Manhattan and was a fundraiser for Camp Olmsted, a summer camp in upstate New York for underprivileged children
Clinton said the ‘two best politicians I know’ didn’t think she would lose, referring to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and neither did she.
She said: ‘When it hit me, it just threw me back and threw me onto my own internal resources…
‘I knew I had to get up, to demonstrate the kind of personal composure and strength in order to deliver a concession speech in a way that wasn’t bitter.
‘But as soon as we left that stage I just felt the whole weight of it on me. We were relaxing in the car on the way home, I couldn’t speak, I didn’t have any internal resources left’.
Clinton also took a number of shots at Trump and got a big laugh from the crowd when she said: ‘Who gets into a Twitter war with The Pope?’
Referring to Trump’s decision to revoke the DACA program for young immigrants Clinton asked: ‘Where does that cruelty come from?’
She said: ‘It is not from the church, it is not from Christianity’.
Clinton said on Thursday: ‘I knew I had to get up, to demonstrate the kind of personal composure and strength in order to deliver a concession speech in a way that wasn’t bitter.’ Pictured above at the concession speech on November 9
President Donald J. Trump is seen above Thursday holding a joint news conference with Amir Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah of Kuwait in the East Room of the White House. Clinton also took a number of shots at Trump and got a big laugh from the crowd when she said: ‘Who gets into a Twitter war with The Pope?’
Clinton was supposed to be joined at the event by the Rev Bill Shillady, her personal pastor but he pulled out at the last minute.
He has been forced to apologize after it emerged that he plagiarized parts of a book of daily devotionals he had sent Clinton during the campaign.
Attendees of the event at Riverside Church were supposed to get a copy of the book with their $83 tickets but it was pulled and pulled by the publisher, so the $15 was donated to Camp Olmsted instead
In extracts of What Happened already made public Clinton has appeared to swing between angry and conciliatory.
In the book Clinton calls former FBI director James Comey ‘rash’ for revealing to the public he was reopening the investigation into her email server.
She says that Bernie Sanders, her Democratic Presidential rival, did ‘lasting damage’ to the party and claims sexism stopped her beating Trump, who she brands a ‘creep’.
Clinton writes: ‘What makes me such a lightning rod for fury? I’m really asking. I’m at a loss. think it’s partly because I’m a woman’.