Bill Clinton reveals he ‘couldn’t sleep for two years,’ prone to ‘outbursts of rage’ after Hillary lost to Trump: memoir
Former President Bill Clinton revealed he “couldn’t sleep for two years” and was prone to “outbursts of rage” after his wife Hillary Clinton lost to GOP rival Donald Trump in 2016, acknowledging in a memoir released earlier this month that he “wasn’t fit to be around.”
“The whole thing is hard for me to write,” Clinton, wrote in “Citizen: My Life After The White House,” according to the Daily Mail. “I couldn’t sleep for two years after the election. I was so angry, I wasn’t fit to be around.”
“I apologize to all those who endured my outbursts of rage, which lasted for years and bothered or bored people who thought it pointless to rehash things that couldn’t be changed,” the 42nd president said.
Clinton in the tell-all called the 2016 election, in which Hillary lost to Trump despite polls predicting her to take the victory, the “darkest election possible in the United States” — and still blamed Russian misinformation, then-FBI Director James Comey investigating her emails and a hostile “political press” for influencing the outcome of the election.
“Almost two years after the election, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a highly regarded social scientist said Russia’s cyber attacks piled on top of Comey’s interventions were effective enough to persuade voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to vote for third parties or stay at home,” he wrote.
“If so, Putin’s enablers were Comey and the political press.”
Clinton also addressed his controversial relationship with former associate Jeffrey Epstein, admitting that he did fly with him on the the financier’s “Lolita Express,” but never visited the pedophile’s equally infamous estate in the Virgin Islands, where he was accused of trafficking minors and hosting an “underage orgy.”
“The bottom line is, even though it allowed me to visit the work of my foundation, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward. I wish I had never met him,” the former president lamented.
“I had always thought Epstein was odd but had no inkling of the crimes he was committing,” he added, before denying ever having set foot on Little St. James. “He hurt a lot of people, but I knew nothing about it, and by the time he was first arrested in 2005, I had stopped contact with him. I’ve never visited his island.”
Clinton — who was impeached by the House of Representatives for lying about his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky — also expressed regret about how he later addressed the scandal in an NBC News “Today Show” interview in 2018.
He was asked by the hosts at the time if he had apologized to Lewinsky in the years following the scandal.
“I said, ‘No, I felt terrible then,'” Clinton explained in the pages of his new memoir.
”Did you ever apologize to her?’ I said that I had apologized to her and everybody else I wronged. I was caught off guard by what came next,” he also wrote, noting that the hosts then said, “But you didn’t apologize to her, at least according to folks that we’ve talked to.”
“I fought to contain my frustration as I replied that while I’d never talked to her directly, I did say publicly on more than [one] occasion I was sorry,” Clinton replied, saying the interview was “not my finest hour.”
