President-elect Donald Trump knows “how to get angry, white men to vote for him,” former President Bill Clinton told a reporter earlier this month in New York.
According to Politico, Mr. Clinton made the comment to a reporter from The Record-Review at a small bookstore in Katonah, New York — about a 15-minute drive from the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua, New York. The former president’s comments were only published in the newspaper’s print edition, Politico reported.
“He doesn’t know much. One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him,” Mr. Clinton said of the president-elect, according to The Record-Review.
Mr. Clinton also blamed FBI Director James B. Comey for costing his wife, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the election by announcing less than two weeks before Election Day that the FBI was again investigating the former secretary of state and her private email server.
“James Comey cost her the election,” Mr. Clinton declared, The Record-Review reported. “We were seven (percentage) points up.”
The former president also dismissed Mr. Trump’s characterization of his election as a “landslide” victory.
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“Landslide? I got something like 370 electoral votes” in 1992, Mr. Clinton said. “That was a landslide.”
Mr. Trump received 306 electoral votes in last month’s election.
Mr. Clinton confirmed that the president-elect called him the day after the election and said he was surprisingly cordial, “like it was 15 years ago” when the Clintons and Trumps were seen socializing, The Record-Review reported.
Mr. Clinton said the president-elect told him Mrs. Clinton was “tougher” than he “thought she’d be.”
• Jessica Chasmar can be reached at jchasmar@washingtontimes.com.
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