Hillary Clinton is using Facebook ads to promote her new book, a week after employees at the social media company admitted they may have sold Russia issue advocacy ads, which in turn helped tilt the election toward Donald Trump.
Today, as Clinton’s new book What Happened was released, DailyMail.com spotted several sponsored Facebook posts advertising the tome, which is already reduced in price to $17.99 on Amazon.com for a hardcover edition. Originally it cost $30.
The ads used some of Clinton’s most tantalizing quotes, such as when she had to call President Trump up and concede the election last November.
Hillary Clinton is using Facebook ads to tell her new book a week after the company disclosed they may have sold issue ads to the Russians, which helped tilt the election to Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton was in New York City today to kick off her new book tour, as What Happened, her memoir, was released
Hillary Clinton holds up a copy of What Happened, which is on sale on Amazon.com for $17.99 and she’s using Facebook to sell
Hillary Clinton was in New York signing copies of her new book What Happened Tuesday, while taking heat for some of the comments she’s made about fellow Democrats
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she thought Hillary Clinton’s book tour was ‘sad’ as she’s ‘propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks’
‘Donald, it’s Hillary,’ she recalled saying, noting, ‘It was without a doubt one of the strangest moments of my life.’
Clinton’s new book has been getting attention for weeks and today became one of the most interesting moments during the White House press briefing.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders used a reporter’s question on whether President Trump would be reading Hillary Clinton’s book to wage a full-fledged attack on her boss’ former political nemesis.
Huckabee Sanders told Yahoo’s Hunter Walker in the briefing room Tuesday that she wasn’t sure if Trump would pick up the tome, ‘But I would think that he’s pretty well versed on what happened,’ she said, snarking at Clinton’s book title.
‘I think it’s sad that after Hillary Clinton ran one of the most negative campaigns in history and lost, the last chapter of her public life is going to be now defined by propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks,’ Huckabee Sanders said. ‘And I think that’s a sad way for her to continue.’
Yesterday, Clinton had sat down with USA Today and said she believed there was Russia and Trump campaign collusion.
‘There certainly was communication and there certainly was an understanding of some sort,’ Clinton said. ‘Because there’s no doubt in my mind that Putin wanted me to lose and wanted Trump to win. And there’s no doubt in my mind that there are a tangle of financial relationships between Trump and his operation with Russian money.’
‘And there’s no doubt in my mind that the Trump campaign and other associates have worked really hard to hid their connections with Russians,’ the former secretary of state added.
Beyond this charge, Clinton labeled Trump a ‘creep’ in the book and said he made her ‘skin crawl’ when he got too close to her at the second presidential debate.
However, much of what’s been newsworthy out of What Happened – which was officially released today – was that Clinton knocked around the Democrats so much.
She hit back at former Vice President Joe Biden who had suggested she hadn’t made enough of an effort with working people, pointing out that he had stumped for her.
In her book and on her media tour she’s lashed out at Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters for not fully coming into the Democratic Party’s fold.
On an episode of the Pod Save America podcast, released today, Clinton talked about how much better she treated President Obama, after losing to him in the Democratic primary in 2008, than how Sanders and his ilk treated her.
‘I didn’t get anything like that respect from Sanders and his supporters,’ she told the hosts, who had worked in President Obama’s White House.
‘And it hurt, you know, to have basically captured the nomination, ending up with more than 4 million votes than he had – but he dragged it out,’ she said of her primary rival.
Democrats are split on whether Clinton should be airing out her party’s dirty laundry.
A new Rasmussen Reports poll has 54 percent of Democrats saying she 54 percent saying there’s still a future for her in public life, while another 36 percent said she should retire.
‘The best thing she could do is disappear,’ a former Clinton fundraiser told the Hill newspaper last week. ‘She’s doing harm to all of us because of her own selfishness. Honestly, I wish she’d just shut the f*** up and go away.’
That particular source’s comments are more in line with the majority of the country – 61 percent said she should retire – and Republicans like Huckabee Sanders, with 83 percent of GOP likely voters saying it’s time to step out of public life.