Hillary Clinton says misogyny “played a role” in her incredible election defeat

During the on-stage interview with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Clinton said sexism was partially to blame for her defeat.

The former First Lady, who also said she wanted to spend more time with her grandchildren, also addressed a range of issues including the Syrian civil war and this week’s gas attacks blamed on the Bashar Assad regime.

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“And layer on the first woman president over that and I think some people, women included, had real problems”, she said in her first interview since her loss, speaking to a New York Times journalist at the women’s empowerment event held each year in Manhattan. In front of a friendly audience at a packed auditorium at the Lincoln Center, Clinton was forthcoming about the parallel universe in which she had hoped to be president.

Trump said Thursday that “something should happen” with regard to Assad, after referring to the deadly attack as a “heinous” and “horrific” act against innocent people the previous day.

Clinton went on to say the Russian hacking of the DNC, DCCC, etc. was “a more effective theft even than Watergate”. “I don’t take any pleasure in seeing the kind of chaotic functioning” of the current administration, Clinton said. “I am looking at doing interesting things”, she said.

Last year, shortly after the presidential election result, there were reports of analyses by private cybersecurity firms, jointly with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the NSA and other government agencies, which said Russian hackers were behind the Democratic National Committee hack. Russian Federation has denied the hacking allegations.

Hillary Clinton called for a strikes on military targets in Syria hours before Donald Trump ordered the United States to launch its missile attack.

“We’ve got to try to change the dynamic”, added Clinton.

Clinton said Congress should put aside party differences, set up an independent, nonpartisan commission to investigate, and take action to stop such Russian meddling.

That investigation, however, has been plagued with controversy following House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ (R-Calif.) visit to the White House hours before he announced that Trump and his associates may have been picked up in incidental surveillance collection during the 2016 election.

And it is continues to play a role in the Trump administration, she alleged, noting that the number of women in Trump’s government is “the lowest it’s been in a generation”.

When asked if her future plans would include running for office again, Clinton demurred.