Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that her “off the reservation” remark wasn’t about her husband, former President Bill Clinton, as her Republican rival Donald Trump had suggested.
Asked about the Republican frontrunner’s personal attacks against her, Clinton said last week that she was used to dealing with men who “sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak.”
In an interview, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell said that Trump suggested Clinton was referring to her husband and asked the former secretary of state for her reaction to that.
“Oh, that’s not true,” Clinton responded.
Clinton said she had been “talking and thinking” about her election to the U.S. Senate in 2000, in which she said then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani made “intemperate attacks” against her and her opponent, then-Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY), similarly attacked her.
“So, I have political experience in dealing with candidates who think they’re going to score points by you know being either negative about women in general or about me in particular,” Clinton said.
She added that she also had been thinking about Russian President Vladimir Putin, who she said “blamed me personally for demonstrations in Russia because of his rigged election.”
“So, I do have some experience in dealing with this kind of—visceral, really mean-spirited attacks,” Clinton said.
Trump also criticized Clinton’s “off the reservation” comment as offensive to “the Indians.”
