In a hilarious turn of events, former Secretary of State and 2016 supreme sore loser Hillary Clinton brutally bashed Senator Bernie Sanders in a new Hulu documentary, as Reuters reports:
“Hillary Clinton criticized the campaign of her former Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders in a new documentary in which she says he was an ineffective U.S. senator who accomplished little because “nobody liked him.”
Hillary Clinton just did the biggest favor for Bernie Sanders any politician has done for another politician in years. Running against Hillary is surefire gold. Just ask Obama 2008 or Bernie 2016 or Trump 2016.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 21, 2020
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Clinton also weighed in on the dispute between Sanders and 2020 Democratic presidential rival Elizabeth Warren centering around the electability of women, saying Sanders demonstrated “a pattern” in how his campaign attacked women rivals.
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The criticism, made in a Hulu documentary to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday and an interview promoting it, revealed lingering bitterness toward Sanders after he mounted an unexpected Democratic primary challenge to Clinton in 2016. Clinton backers blame Sanders’ supporters for tarnishing her with vitriolic criticism that helped put Republican Donald Trump in the White House.
“He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it,” Clinton says in the documentary, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Asked recently by the magazine if that assessment still holds, Clinton said, “Yes, it does.”
She did not commit to endorsing and campaigning for Sanders should he win the nomination this year, citing a competitive Democratic field, but she criticized his campaign as having a culture of insult and attack.
“I will say, however, that it’s not only him, it’s the culture around him. It’s his leadership team. It’s his prominent supporters. It’s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women,” Clinton told the Hollywood Reporter.
When she was asked about the dispute over whether Sanders told Warren in a private conversation that a woman could not beat Trump, Clinton pointed out that she got 3 million more votes than Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Clinton called the dispute part of a pattern with Sanders, noting he had attacked her as being unqualified despite her experience, including as secretary of state and a U.S. senator.
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She encouraged voters “to elect a president who’s going to try to bring us together, and not either turn a blind eye, or actually reward the kind of insulting, attacking, demeaning, degrading behavior that we’ve seen from this current administration.”
Hillary Clinton has to be the sorest loser of a Presidential campaign in modern history.
Normally the loser of a campaign fades into the background for a bit and often re-emerges later with a new message, or cause or race to run in.
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But not Hillary.
From almost the moment she lost she’s been whining incessantly and pointing the finger and blaming everyone else for her loss instead of looking in the mirror to try and fix the real problem with her campaign.
It just shows that America did the right thing electing Donald Trump President of the United States and not her.
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Reuters contributed to this report.