Says Russian media ‘stole’ election from her
The 2016 democratic presidential candidate, Hilary Clinton says Trump “basically stole the election” from her four years after her loss.
In an interview with journalist Kara Swisher’s podcast for the New York Times Opinions network released on Monday, Clinton spoke about losing in 2016 because of a “disinformation campaign” run by then-Republican candidate Donald Trump and “Russian media.”
“I think that Trump and a lot of the people around him know that his victory was not on the up and up. They had an extensive campaign to suppress black voters. We now know much more about that than we did,” the former secretary of state said.
She also blamed third party voters who handed Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein historic results for their parties and claimed they were “boosted” by “Russian media.”
“They had third party candidates boosted, particularly by Russian media. And the lies and ridiculous stories made up about me were meant to either keep you at home, or drive you third party if they couldn’t get you to vote for Trump,” she said.
Trump, she said, holds a presidency that has an “air of illegitimacy,” something she has said many times over the past four years.
She now drives Trump and Republicans “crazy” because “I was the candidate that they basically stole an election from.”
In the same podcast interview, Clinton also claimed Trump’s presidency makes her “sick” and that she would have handled the Covid-19 pandemic better because she was “born for that.”
.@HillaryClinton: There’s “no doubnt” I would have handled Covid better than @realDonaldTrump
“I was born for that" pic.twitter.com/3kUu02KIBc
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 26, 2020
Though she won the popular vote in 2016, Clinton lost the Electoral College by 77 votes, with Trump scoring 304 votes over her 227.