In a memoir published earlier this month, former President Bill Clinton acknowledged that he wasn’t fit to be around after his wife, Hillary Clinton, lost to Republican opponent Donald Trump in 2016. He also disclosed that he had trouble sleeping for two years and was prone to angry outbursts.
Clinton said in Citizen: My Life After the White House, “The whole thing is hard for me to write,” the Daily Mail reported. After the election, I couldn’t sleep for two years. I was too enraged to be with.
According to the current president, I apologize to everyone who put up with my angry outbursts, which persisted for years and annoyed or bored those who felt it was useless to repeat things that couldn’t be altered.
Clinton called the 2016 election, which saw Hillary lose to Trump despite polls showing she would win, the darkest election the US could have. She attributed the result to a hostile political press, Russian disinformation, and then-FBI Director James Comey’s probe of her emails.
In an article published nearly two years after the election, renowned social scientist Kathleen Hall Jamieson claimed that Comey’s interventions combined with Russia’s cyberattacks were sufficient to convince voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to either stay at home or vote for third parties.
If this is the case, Comey and the political media were Putin’s helpers.
Clinton also discussed his tense relationship with former colleague Jeffrey Epstein, acknowledging that he traveled with him on the financier’s Lolita Express but never went to the pedophile’s equally notorious estate in the Virgin Islands, where he was charged with child trafficking and hosting an underage orgy.
In the end, even though it gave me the opportunity to see my foundation’s work, flying on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of interrogation that ensued. “I regret meeting him,” the former president said.
He denied ever having been to Little St. James, saying, “I always thought Epstein was weird, but I had no idea what crimes he was committing.” I was unaware that he had harmed many individuals, and I had stopped communicating with him at the time of his initial arrest in 2005. I haven’t been to his island before.
In an NBC News Today Show interview in 2018, Clinton, who was impeached by the House of Representatives for lying about his sexual relationship with White House staffer Monica Lewinsky, also expressed regret for his subsequent handling of the matter.
In the years following the affair, the hosts questioned him about whether he had shown regret to Lewinsky.
In his latest memoir, Clinton said, “I said, No, I felt terrible then.”
Have you ever expressed regret to her? I clarified that I had expressed my regret to her and all the other people I had harmed. He added, “But you didn’t apologize to her, at least according to people we’ve spoken with,” adding, “I was taken aback by what happened next.”
Clinton stated that the interview was not my best moment, and I struggled to control my annoyance as I said that although I had never spoken to her directly, I had publicly apologized on more than [one] time.
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