Former President Bill Clinton revealed in a memoir released earlier this month that he “couldn’t 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 “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 was unable to sleep for two years following the election. I was too angry 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 current president said.
Clinton described the 2016 election, in which Hillary lost to Trump despite polls predicting her victory, as the “darkest election possible in the United States” — and blamed Russian misinformation, then-FBI Director James Comey’s investigation of her emails, and a hostile “political press” for influencing the outcome.
“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,” according to his article.
“If so, Putin’s enablers were Comey and the political press.”
Clinton also spoke about his contentious relationship with former associate Jeffrey Epstein, admitting that he flew with him on 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 a “underage orgy.”
“The bottom line is that, while it allowed me to visit the work of my foundation, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questioning that followed. “I wish I hadn’t met him,” the former president lamented.
“I had always thought Epstein was odd, but I had no idea what crimes he was committing,” he said, before denying ever having visited Little St. James. “He hurt a lot of people, but I had no idea, and by the time he was first arrested in 2005, I had lost contact with him.” I have 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 apologized for how he later addressed the scandal in an NBC News “Today Show” interview in 2018.
The hosts asked him if he had apologized to Lewinsky in the years since the scandal.
“I said, ‘No, I felt terrible then,'” Clinton wrote in his new memoir.
“Have you ever apologized to her?” I explained that I had apologized to her and everyone else I had wronged. I was taken aback by what happened next,” he also wrote, noting that the hosts then said, “But you didn’t apologize to her, at least according to people we’ve spoken with.”
“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 responded, indicating that the interview was “not my finest hour.”