Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump a “creep” in her new memoir and
describes how the now-president’s persistent looming during one of their
debates made her skin crawl, according to excerpts released Wednesday.
“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,”
Clinton, who made history last year as the first woman presidential
nominee of a major US party, wrote in her upcoming book, titled “What
Happened.”
“He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled,” she added,
noting that the debate came just days after the release of a shock audio
tape in which Trump was heard bragging about groping women.
“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.’”
The excerpts were obtained by MSNBC, which broadcast portions of
Clinton’s audio version of the highly-anticipated memoir in which the
former first lady dissects her doomed presidential campaign.
The book is set for a September 12 release in the United States.
Clinton has said that after months of reflection on her defeat, she
spent much of this year writing a book that aims to pull back the
curtain on the strategies — and failures — in one of the most
astonishing elections in US history.
In the excerpts she also describes her feelings of having let down the American people.
“I couldn’t get the job done,” she writes. “And I’ll have to live with that for the rest of my life.”
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