Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has defined her “conflicted” opinion of fellow former first woman Melania Trump in her newly launched e-book, through which she additionally detailed an “awkward” encounter with Donald Trump’s spouse involving different former first women.
Clinton “never quite knew what to make of the third Mrs. Trump,” she wrote in “Something Lost, Something Gained” launched Tuesday. USA In the present day revealed extracts from the memoir.
“On a gut level, I have never believed that a wife bears responsibility for the actions of her husband. But did she aid and abet her husband’s worst instincts?” Clinton requested, including, “Was she quietly complicit in his bigotry and hate-mongering?”
Melania Trump, in fact, defended her husband Donald Trump’s birtherism assaults on former President Barack Obama, way back to in 2011.
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Clinton additionally recalled herself and different former FLOTUS’ Michelle Obama and Laura Bush assembly Melania Trump, final yr, at former first woman Rosalynn Carter’s memorial service.
“Melania had a look on her face – very smiley but uncertain – that reminded me of the little kid at the birthday party who doesn’t know anyone and is waiting at the edge of the circle, hoping people are going to be nice,” Clinton wrote, per excerpts from the e-book.
“We were. We all went up to her. Jill air-kissed her cheek, and Michelle Obama gave her one of her signature big hugs,” Clinton remembered.
“I can appreciate how awkward it must have been, not knowing what kind of reception she would get after all her husband’s insults directed at us Bushes, Bidens, Obamas, and Clintons alike,” she added.
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