Hillary Clinton slams Putin, Trump in “The Late Show” interview

Featuring on CBS’s “The Late Show”, former Democrats Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has expressed her harboured resentment towards Russia President, Vladimir Putin largely for his meddling into the 2016 election which she lost to incumbent Trump.

While speaking to host Stephen Colbert, Clinton who just released her new book “What Happened” (an exposition of the back scene of her election loss) claimed that Putin interfered with the 2016 U.S. presidential election in part because she is a woman.

She also lumped Putin’s interference in the election with her work as U.S. secretary of state (2009-2013), which she said made her clash with Putin on numerous occasions. According to her, the regular clashes evolved into a grudge on the Russian president’s part.


Recently embarking on her book tour which critics branded “blame game”, Clinton insisted her gender bothered Putin and made him “agitated.” She also ridiculed the Russian leader for “manspreading” – a posture where a man sits with his legs spread widely and argued that the Russian leader is “tied up with his anger and disappointment” following the collapse of the Soviet Union.


In addition, Clinton took a swipe at President Trump during the interview. She didn’t hold back her thoughts when Colbert asked her about Trump’s U.N. speech, which he delivered earlier on Tuesday.

She said, “I thought it was very dark, dangerous, not the kind of message that the leader of the greatest nation in the world should be delivering,” referring to Trump’s threat of “totally destroying North Korea” and taunting Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man”.

Critiquing the President’s word, she said, “What I hoped the president would have said was something along the lines of, you know, we view this as dangerous to our allies, to the region, and even to our country. We call on all nations to work with us to try to end the threat posed by Kim Jong Un, and not call him ‘Rocket Man,’ the old Elton John song, but to say, clearly, we will not tolerate any attacks on our friends or ourselves”.

“You should lead with diplomacy, you should lead with the commitment of trying to avoid conflict however you can,” she added.

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