New York – Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says in her new book that Donald Trump made her skin crawl by stalking her around the stage in a campaign debate and she wonders if she should have told him to “back up, you creep.”
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In audio excerpts of the book “What Happened” aired on Wednesday on MSNBC, Clinton described her 2016 campaign as “joyful, humbling, infuriating and just plain baffling” and acknowledged she failed her millions of supporters by losing to Trump in the November election.
In the excerpts, Clinton described the Oct. 9 debate in St. Louis in which Trump followed her closely about the stage, lurking behind her as she fielded questions from a live television audience. The debate came two days after an audiotape emerged in which Trump was heard bragging about groping women.
“This is not OK, I thought,” Clinton says. “It was the second presidential debate and Donald Trump was looming behind me.
“We were on a small stage and no matter where I walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces. It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled,” Clinton said.
“It was one of those moments where you wish you could hit pause and ask everyone watching: ‘Well, what would you do?’ Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he weren’t repeatedly invading your space? Or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly: ‘Back up, you creep. Get away from me. I know you love to intimidate women but you can’t intimidate me.'”
Clinton says she chose the first option.
“I kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men trying to throw me off,” she says.
But Clinton questions whether she should have chosen the second option.
“It certainly would have been better TV,” she says. “Maybe I have over-learned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.”
Clinton says writing the book, due to be released in the coming weeks, “wasn’t easy.”
“Every day that I was a candidate for president, I knew that millions of people were counting on me and I couldn’t bear the idea of letting them down. But I did,” she says. “I couldn’t get the job done.”
Her flesh crawled because she doesn’t like MEN getting too close. Milania, on the other hand, is of the female gender.
When is this old hag going to just give up & wither away? Isn’t anyone brave enough to risk their life by telling her?
Now she knows what she makes the rest of us feel like.
I agree that it might have been better to call Trump out as a creepy stalker. The reason Trump has gotten so far is because people tend to be polite and avoid making a tumult, because they used to being around normal people and aren’t prepared to deal with the mentally ill. I don’t mean mentally ill in the sense of wild people, I mean mentally ill in the sense of psychopaths, narcissists, Machiavellians.
Right sure!
She’s a horrible, nasty, lying, power-hungry lady.
Go away!
Married to Bill Clinton for 40+ years and Donald Trump made her skin crawl?
Now she knows how Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones , Monica Lewinsky and untold others feel.
Hillary Clinton is probably the only woman within Bill Clinton’s reach that hasn’t been groped !!
She’s such a phony…my skin crawled during all her scandals during her husbands reign, when she engaged in pay for play, when she stole money from Haitians rebuilding efforts, when she mishandled Benghazi, etc etc etc
People actually fall for her?
Yup, I guess that’s why she lost the election. Nothing with her having to be a pathological liar.
This story is not about Trump. It’s about this lady still not getting that she is just not likeable. People just don’t like her.
You could say, that she makes many people’s skin crawl.Total projection,Hillary. Get a good Therapist.
So Hillary spoke until now as a First Lady, then Senator, then Secretary of State. She had reasons that her words should be believed and taken seriously. But she has seldom accomplished anything (except for the renaming of a library), and was one of the hallmark pathological liars. So now, we are supposed to accept that her new role as a published author makes her believable? Sorry, but I have never smoked the kind of stuff that would make something so illogical acceptable. I am not impressed with information that is gleaned from the internet, reported in MSM, or published in books. There must be better reasons to accept something as fact.
Hillary made the U.S. Secret Service agents who were stationed at the White House, to protect her, and her women chasing husband Bill, extremely uncomfortable. She would use the foulest language to them, if they even stated “Good morning” to her. She would scream at them, when they would witness her fighting with Bill. In fact, she had the agent who witnessed her throw a vase at Bill Clinton (causing a shiner), transferred out of the White House. In addition, she has terrorized her staff in the past, using such crude language, which would embarrass a truck driver. Yet, she has the chutzpah to state that Trump made her feel uncomfortable! I guess that by spicing up her phony book, she thinks it will increase sales. Incidentally, I know for a fact, that several years ago, two cable technicians from Verizon had an appointment at the home of the Clintons, in Westchester County. Because of heavy traffic, they were delayed. When they came to the home of the Clintons, Bill was very folksy, and stated “how are you all doing”. Hillary, however, was not nice. She stated “Where the hell (or possibly worse words), have you been”!
hiLIARy is such a phony, congenial liar.
Thank G-D Hillary the Muslim loving Anton Israel, leftist didn’t win!
A lot of people like her and want to hear what she has to say. She got more votes than the current resident of the WH.
But her husband stalking and griping and assuming other women didn’t bother her.
I read the majority of responses it is frightening. Here is a man who said that grabbing female genitalia is his pleasure. He cheated people with his Trump University. Has filed numerous bankruptcies.Changed wives like I change socks. Compared lefties to Nazis. During WWI the chabad baked matzes in Soviet Russia. His ambassador tom Israel Friedman critizised his response regarding Nazis. Yes I saw Nazis throwing small children from high hospital into waiting trucks. Any decent person whether Jew or goy would be appalled by the lack of integrity, amorality of this man . This man was even e disapproved byvRepublican senators
There is immorality punishable under the U.S. C,C. Then there is amorality as displayed by Heydrich, Himmler and Eichmann and Trump skirts this trait
To #26 - Your comment is typical of the younger generation, vis-a-vis bias against senior citizens. You seem to think that seniors are not capable of going on the Internet, or even operating a computer. I know of a number of seniors over 80, who operate a computer; I even know of an 84 year old, and who still practice medicine, and drives a car to work, to see his patients. There was a Dr. Goldman, in Cincinnati, who practiced medicine until he was 100. He was seeing several generations of the same family. Many seniors over 80 have kept up with the times, and not only operate a computer, but use Smartphones, Laptops, and Tablets. They are in much better physical and mental condition than were their contemporaries, a generation ago. You should apologize to #24 , as you showed a lack of deretz erech!