Hillary Clinton is still ripping into Trump, blaming others for her loss.
By Staff Writers, News Corp Australia Network:
Hillary Clinton has delivered her strongest critique of Donald Trump yet, saying she was “on the way to winning” the US election except for two intervening factors.
“I take absolute personal responsibility. I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot. I am very aware of the challenges, the problems, the shortfalls that we had,” Ms Clinton said.
But she added that she was “on the way to winning until a combination of (FBI Director) James Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off. The evidence for that intervening event is, I think, compelling, persuasive, and so we overcame a lot in the campaign.”
Ms Clinton, who is currently writing a book about her shock election loss, said: “The reason I believe we lost were the intervening events in the last 10 days.”
In the wideranging and candid interview, Ms Clinton also opened about North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, her relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and misogyny.
The former US secretary of state agreed with the journalist that misogyny played a role in her defeat by Mr Trump, but mentioned several times that she won the popular vote. (She won three million more votes than her Republican opponent.)
“Yes, I do think it played a role. I think other things did as well. Every day that goes by, we find out more about the unprecedented inference, including from a foreign power whose leader is not a member of my fan club,” Ms Clinton said, referring to President Putin.
“It is real, it is very much a part of the landscape, political and socially and economically.”
According to CNN, Ms Clinton has grown more at peace with her loss in recent months, but is still focused on interference by the Russian government.
Ms Clinton revealed she personally supported Mr Trump’s strike in Syria after its alleged chemical attack on its own people, but said “it’s too soon to really tell” if it worked.
“I am not convinced that it really made much of a difference,” she said about the Syria strike.
“I don’t know what kind of potentially, you know, backroom deals were made with the Russians. I mean, we later learned that the Russians and the Syrians moved jets off the runway, that the Russians may have been given a heads up before our own Congress was. I think there’s a lot we really don’t fully know about what was part of that strike.”
Ms Clinton also responded to Mr Trump’s assertion that he would be “honored” to meet brutal North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
“I take this (North Korean nuclear) threat very seriously. But I don’t believe that we alone are able to really put the pressure on this North Korean regime that needs to be placed,” she said.
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