Trump Goes on Bill Clinton Rant

Comment to Small Town Local Newspaper Draws Trump Ire

Five days ago the editor of a small local newspaper serving residents of the upscale suburbs of Westchester County, New York, ran a piece detailing a conversation he had by chance when he and his wife ran into former President Bill Clinton. And naturally Donald Trump is furious.

“Last Saturday around noon, during some unplanned holiday shopping in a nearby village, my wife and I ducked into the bookstore for what we thought would be a quick purchase of a few fiction hardcovers,” the editor of the Record Review notes. “Former President Clinton turned and took a few steps away from the counter. We said hello, others did, too, and then the first question came, about the election. He stopped, answered succinctly, and waited for the next question. He was in no rush to leave.”

Clinton, whose home is in the nearby town of Chappaqua, talked about the news that had broken the night before, that the FBI agreed with the CIA that the Russian government interfered in the election to help Trump win. “You would need to have a single-digit IQ not to recognize what was going on,” President Clinton told the shoppers and the editor.

Asked about Trump’s claims of a “landslide” victory, Clinton responded, “Landslide? I got something like 370 electoral votes. That was a landslide.” Trump, on Monday, won just 304. And Secretary Clinton of course won the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes.

The former president also said FBI director James Comey, “cost her the election.”

But tucked away near the very end of the editorial, the fifth paragraph from the bottom, was this:

“Is Trump smart?” a man asked as a follow-up. “He doesn’t know much. One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him,” Mr. Clinton replied.

Several news outlets picked it up Monday, and Donald Trump just couldn’t resist, hitting back at Bill Clinton on Twitter first thing Tuesday morning.

As several on Twitter noted, the election was 42 days ago. 

Time to grow up, Mr. President-elect.

 

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