NEW DELHI: Russians, the FBI and "angry white men", are to blame for
Hillary Clinton's loss in the US Presidential election said the 2016 Democratic nominee's husband Bill, a former US President himself.
"He (US President elect
Donald Trump) doesn't know much, (but) one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him,"
Bill Clinton
told The Record-Review, a weekly local newspaper in upstate New York last week. National US media only got wind of this yesterday, Politico reported.
The former US President also
blamed James Comey, the director of the FBI for Hillary Clinton's loss , saying Comey had "cost her (Hillary) the election". He was referring to the fact that with fewer than two weeks to go before the election, the FBI said it was re-investigating new evidence to do with
Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she US Secretary of State.
Bill Clinton also said he believed Russians hacking the election cost Hillary Clinton the White House. The US intelligence community recently concluded that the Russian hacks were part of an effort to influence the 2016 US Presidential election. They said that hackers working for Russia broke into the Democratic (Party) National Committee's computer network, as well as the private email accounts of
John Podesta
, a top adviser to Hillary Clinton.
"You would need to have a single-digit IQ not to recognize what was going on," Bill Clinton said, referring to the hacks.
Late last week, US President
Barack Obama, also a Democrat like Bill and Hillary Clinton, said that "everyone during the election perceived accurately - that in fact what the Russian hack had done was
create more problems for the Clinton campaign " than it did for the Trump campaign.
At the interview, when Bill Clinton was asked if US President-elect Trump won by a landslide despite not winning the popular vote, the former US President sounded incredulous.
“Landslide? I got something like 370 electoral votes. 'That' was a lanslide,” Bill Clinton said, about his 1992 run to the White House.