Hillary Clinton loyalists are “bitter” that Barack Obama cost her the election, Mike Allen reports. Team Clinton thinks the former president was more responsible for Hillary’s defeat to Donald Trump than Vladimir Putin or even FBI Director James Comey. They certainly don’t blame the candidate, or themselves.
As far as Obama is concerned, the former president is reportedly “befuddled” as to how Hillary managed to lose to Trump, especially given Obama’s own popularity. Obama and his inner circle expected Hillary to win, and didn’t want to be seen as “grandstanding,” or politicizing the Russian hacks.
Obama addressed the issue at his final news conference, arguing that even if his administration had “thumped our chests” about Russian hacking — what the Clintons wanted him to do — it wouldn’t have been very effective.
Knowing the Clintons, they are unlikely to let this go.
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