Trump Snaps At Bill Clinton: He ‘Doesn’t Know Much’ About Winning

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Giant Center, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, in Hershey, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Giant Center, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, in Hershey, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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President-elect Donald Trump snapped at Bill Clinton on Twitter Tuesday morning, after it was reported that the former President said earlier this month that Trump “didn’t know much” except “how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”

“Bill Clinton stated that I called him after the election. Wrong, he called me (with a very nice congratulations),” Trump wrote. “He ‘doesn’t know much…’”

“Especially how to get people, even with an unlimited budget, out to vote in the vital swing states ( and more). They focused on wrong states,” he continued.

Clinton, during an exchange in a bookstore in Pleasantville, New York at which a local newspaper reporter happened to be present, said Trump “didn’t know much” except “how to get angry, white men to vote for him,” and blamed his wife Hillary Clinton’s electoral loss on James Comey. Just 11 days before the election, the FBI director made the extremely unusual decision to announce the (ultimately fruitless) discovery of emails that he said may have been relevant to the agency’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Clinton also told the local newspaper that Trump had called him the day after the election, striking a cordial tone–”like it was 15 years ago”–and saying that Hillary Clinton “was tougher than I thought she’d be.”

Trump had just finished celebrating his electoral college victory on Twitter when he turned his attention to Clinton.

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  1. Avatar for ggus ggus says:

    Did Trump miss the fact that Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States twice?

  2. Trump: No big deal. I plan to be POTUS forever, much more than 8 years. I will also be the richest person in the world. Ever.

  3. Yeah, two-time president, no foreign wars, finances in the black, fought off witch-hunt GOP hypocrites and weakling Dems: he doesn’t know anything about winning.

    Coming from a racist, lying, fraudulent scumbag who isn’t even an actual Republican, I’m sure Bill is losing sleep over Pepe’s comments.

  4. LOL. Keep it up, Bill – you got under his skin. HO is such a five-year old child.

  5. Such a reassuring thought that the future President preoccupies himself with really important bullshit rather than learning shit from PDB’s that could shed light on where the next ISIS truck/dirty bomb/nuke or other attack may be.

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