Former President Bill Clinton revealed in a memoir released earlier this month that he “could not sleep for two years” and was prone to “outbursts of rage” after his wife Hillary Clinton lost to Republican rival Donald Trump in 2016, admitting that he “was not fit to be around.”
The Daily Mail says that Clinton wrote in “Citizen: My Life After the White House,” “The whole thing is hard for me to write.” “After the election, I could not sleep for two years.” I was so mad that I was not fit to be with anyone.
The 42nd president said, “I am sorry to everyone who had to deal with my angry outbursts, which happened over many years and annoyed or bored people who thought it was pointless to talk about things that could not be changed again.”
Clinton called the 2016 election, in which Hillary lost to Trump even though polls said she would win, the “darkest election possible in the United States.”
She blamed Russian fake news, James Comey, who was FBI director at the time, looking into her emails, and a hostile “political press” for changing the outcome of the election.
“Almost two years after the election, the well-known social scientist Kathleen Hall Jamieson said that Russia’s cyberattacks along with Comey’s interference were enough to get people in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to vote for third parties or not at all,” he wrote.
“If that is the case, Comey and the political press helped Putin.”
Clinton also talked about his controversial relationship with former business partner Jeffrey Epstein.
He admitted that he had flown with Epstein on the financier’s “Lolita Express,” but that he had never been to Epstein’s famously sexy home in the Virgin Islands, where he was accused of trafficking children and hosting a “underage orgy.”
“In the end, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questions that followed, even though it let me see how my foundation was doing.” The former president said, “I wish I had never met him.”
He also said, “I had always thought Epstein was weird, but I had no idea the crimes he was committing.” He then denied having ever been to Little St. James.
“He hurt a lot of people, but I did not know about it. I had not talked to him in years by the time he was arrested for the first time in 2005.” “I have never been to his island.”
The House of Representatives removed Clinton from office because he lied about having a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In an NBC News “Today Show” interview in 2018, Clinton also said he felt bad about how he talked about the scandal afterward.
At the time, the hosts asked him if he had told Lewinsky he was sorry in the years since the scandal.
“I told them, ‘No, I felt terrible at the time,'” Clinton wrote in his new book.
“Have you ever told her you are sorry?” I told her that I was sorry to her and everyone else I had hurt. “What happened next caught me off guard,” he wrote, adding that the hosts then said, “But you did not say sorry to her, at least according to people we have talked to.”
Clinton replied, “I fought to contain my frustration as I replied that while I would never talked to her directly, I had said in public more than [one] occasion I was sorry.” She also said that the interview was “not my finest hour.”