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Hillary Clinton says 'creep' Donald Trump's debate stalking made her 'skin crawl'
Radio New Zealand ^ | August 23, 2017

Posted on 08/23/2017 11:56:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says in her new book that Donald Trump made her skin crawl by stalking her around the stage in a campaign debate and she wonders if she should have told him to "back up, you creep".

In audio excerpts of the book What Happened aired on MSNBC, Mrs Clinton described her 2016 campaign as "joyful, humbling, infuriating and just plain baffling" and acknowledged she failed her millions of supporters by losing to Trump in the November election.

In the excerpts, Mrs Clinton described the 9 October debate in St Louis in which Mr Trump followed her closely about the stage, lurking behind her as she fielded questions from a live television audience. The debate came two days after an audiotape emerged in which Mr Trump was heard bragging about groping women.

"This is not OK, I thought," Mrs Clinton said. "It was the second presidential debate and Donald Trump was looming behind me.

"We were on a small stage and no matter where I walked, he followed me closely, staring at me, making faces. It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled.

"It was one of those moments where you wish you could hit pause and ask everyone watching: 'Well, what would you do?' Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he weren't repeatedly invading your space? Or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly: 'Back up, you creep. Get away from me. I know you love to intimidate women but you can't intimidate me.'"

Mrs Clinton said she chose the first option.

"I kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men trying to throw me off," she said.

But she questioned whether she should have chosen the second option.

"It certainly would have been better TV," she said. "Maybe I have over-learned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world."

Mrs Clinton said writing the book, due to be released in the coming weeks, "wasn't easy".

"Every day that I was a candidate for president, I knew that millions of people were counting on me and I couldn't bear the idea of letting them down. But I did," she said. "I couldn't get the job done."


TOPICS: Missouri; Campaign News
KEYWORDS: 2016; bigcreep; bigcreepbillclinton; billclinton; hillary; monicalewinsky; searchworks; trump
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1 posted on 08/23/2017 11:56:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Hillary is still trying to be relevant and failing


2 posted on 08/23/2017 11:57:16 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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Trump just wanted to see if he could get a glimpse of her real lizard skin beneath the shape-shifting human exterior.


3 posted on 08/23/2017 11:58:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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4 posted on 08/23/2017 11:59:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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That’s what I love about Hillary - she is so believable.


5 posted on 08/23/2017 11:59:44 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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Yet another whine about losing? That bitch just can’t stop playing the blame game...


6 posted on 08/23/2017 11:59:47 AM PDT by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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Is this the 3rd or 4th book Hillary has written since the election, trying to explain how she lost?


7 posted on 08/23/2017 11:59:53 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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And how does that compare to the feeling of being married to a serial rapists for decades?


8 posted on 08/23/2017 12:03:19 PM PDT by edzo4 (Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
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She did the same exact thing when she ran against that guy from New York when he walked over to her. She said he invaded her “personal space” and played the sex card. As a woman in politics, I detest that. You can’t have it both ways. If you want to be the President of the US, someone breathing down your neck should not phase you. God, we dodged a bullet on that one.


9 posted on 08/23/2017 12:03:20 PM PDT by Hildy
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Creep Hillary Clinton made my skin crawl everywhere she went.


10 posted on 08/23/2017 12:04:21 PM PDT by Jim W N
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Except that it is not true. She is trying to recycle the attack she had on her former senate opponent.

She is one sick woman.


11 posted on 08/23/2017 12:04:55 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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...Says the professional rapist enabler.


12 posted on 08/23/2017 12:05:49 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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"He was literally breathing down my neck"

This is a TOTAL LIE and the latest effort by the Demoncraps and Mediascum to re-write history. Shrillary doesn't even know what the word "literally" means. So much for her "education" at Wellesley, Yale, etc.
13 posted on 08/23/2017 12:06:07 PM PDT by Enchante
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This is bad writing. A thoughtful author does not use hackneyed phrases such as "made my skin crawl."

The wording does sound authentic however –in the sense that it does ring true as the odious voice of Hillary.

14 posted on 08/23/2017 12:06:44 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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Networks have the full debate tape... why don't they take out a stop watch and see how long President Trump committed the great crime of standing behind Hillary. Let's see exactly how many seconds we're talking about.

Women are a protected democrat victim group after all - and classified information isn't... It's like they're all brain dead...

15 posted on 08/23/2017 12:08:30 PM PDT by GOPJ (Trump stood behind Hillary for 47 seconds in a debate - now she wants an eternal pity party.)
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Monica called Bubba “a big creep”.
Irony is thick here;so is her hypocrisy.


16 posted on 08/23/2017 12:08:40 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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Hillary made America’s skin crawl. That’s why she lost.


17 posted on 08/23/2017 12:08:58 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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But her husband getting oral pleasure from a 20 year old intern in the White House was just fine by her.


18 posted on 08/23/2017 12:10:24 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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She just keeps giving and giving...................


19 posted on 08/23/2017 12:10:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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Donald Trump made her skin crawl

Mostly that's Syphilis and Oxycodone doing that.

20 posted on 08/23/2017 12:10:34 PM PDT by humblegunner
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