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EDITOR’S NOTE: Having 4 months to reflect on her sensational loss to Donald Trump, Hillary blamed the Russians, Comey, Wikileaks and misogyny for her loss. Not her endless series of scandals, not her deleted 33,000 emails or the illegal server she wiped clean “like with a cloth”. Someone find her a safe space….stat!
The former Democratic presidential candidate cited Russian meddling in the election, FBI Director James Comey’s involvement toward the end of the race, WikiLeaks theft of emails from her campaign chairman, and misogyny.
Clinton’s comments came during her first post-election interview at Tina Brown’s eighth annual Women in the World Summit in New York City. She was questioned by Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times.
She said the combination of Comey’s actions and the WikiLeaks’ revelations “had the determinative effect.”
About her own role, she said, “There were things I could have done better.”
While Clinton said there were “lots of contributing factors” to her failure to secure the nation’s highest office, she called Russia’s interference the “weaponization of information.”
“I didn’t fully understand how impactful that was and so it created doubts in people,” Clinton said. “But then the Comey letter coming as it did — just 10 days before the election — really raised questions in a lot of people.”
Two days before the election, Comey announced that none of the emails would lead to criminal charges — leaving in place the FBI’s determination from July. Officials told NBC News that nearly all of the emails were duplicates of emails that had been examined already.
“I don’t understand the commitment to hurt so many people that this administration, this White House, seems to be pursuing,” Clinton said, pointing to the immigration ban, the slashing of U.S. funding for the UN Population Fund, and the failed health care bill.
“What they did or tried to do on the health care bill, which I will confess to this — having listened to them talking about repeal and replace for 8 years, or 7 years now, and they had not a clue what that meant,” she said. “They had no idea. I don’t know that any of them had ever even read the bill.”
Clinton, who is writing a book that she said would examine her defeat last year, said she doubted she would ever seek public office again.
“Devastating,” was how she described her loss. source
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