Bill Clinton makes stunning confession about his bizarre behavior after Hillary’s defeat in America’s ‘darkest election’

President Bill Clinton was so enraged by the treatment of his wife Hillary during her failed presidential bid that he couldn’t sleep for two years, he now admits — or stop complaining about the shocking defeat.

In his new memoir, an emotional Clinton apologizes to all those who got him into trouble in the years after the 2016 election won by Donald Trump, which he describes as “the darkest possible election in the United States.”

Clinton, president from 1991-2001, still blames Hillary’s defeat on a toxic combination of Russian propaganda, an unprecedented investigation into her use of emails by James Comey, then director of the FBI, and a supine political press that, he says, attracted more attention. interest in the email controversy than the merits of the candidates.

“It’s hard for me to write all this,” he says in Citizen – My Life After The White House. ‘Two years after the elections I couldn’t sleep. I was so angry, I wasn’t fit to be around.

“I apologize to all those who put up with my outbursts of anger, which lasted for years and bothered or annoyed people who found it pointless to repeat things that could not be changed.”

Pointing to his wife’s disastrous loss of a six-point lead in the polls, he writes: “Nearly two years after the election, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a highly regarded social scientist, said that the Russian cyber attacks were in addition to Comey’s interventions were effective enough to convince voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. to vote for third parties or stay at home.

“If so, then Comey and the political press were Putin’s enablers.”

Clinton makes a series of admissions in the memoir, including comments about his relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his affair with Monica Lewinksy, which led to his 1996 impeachment by the House of Representatives.

In his new book Citizen, due out next week, Clinton, now 78, described his interactions with the convicted pedophile.

He also addresses a bizarre claim that his staff deliberately tore the letter “W” off White House keyboards to hinder his successor, President George W. Bush – and admits that the long-running claim could be true .

Clinton, 78, recalls how a media frenzy marred the handover to Bush in 2001, amid claims that departing staff had trashed the West Wing. It was said at the time that filing cabinets were glued shut, obscene messages were left on answering machines and pornographic images were placed on office printers.

The presidential entourage was accused of destroying dishes on Airforce One. Bill and Hillary Clinton themselves were involved in stealing bedroom furniture.

But nothing captured the public imagination more than the claim that official keyboards were systematically mutilated to remove the letter “W” – the incoming president’s middle initial and the name by which he was often known.

On January 26, 1998, Bill Clinton spoke about his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, famously saying, “I did not have a sexual relationship with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”

Clinton claims in his memoir that Epstein, seen here with associate Ghislaine Maxwell, had offered the plane in support of his foundation

A photo showing former White House intern Monica Lewinsky meeting with President Bill Clinton at a White House function submitted as evidence in documents by the Starr investigation and released by the House Judicary Committee on September 21 1998

“There are dozens, if not hundreds, of keyboards with these missing keys,” a White House source said at the time. “In some cases, the ‘W’ keys are taped to the doorways, which are 10 feet high. In other cases they were glued in place with superglue, all the way up or upside down.’

Clinton states in the new book: ‘The White House staff asked me to take the tables and said they did not want to keep or store them. And no one from Airforce One destroyed government items.”

But were the keyboards damaged?

“Within a few days, some people finally went on record saying that either no damage had been done or that the accusations of ‘W’ evil had been greatly exaggerated,” he concludes, an open-ended comment that most will take as an admission that the claims were in fact true.

A year-long investigation by the General Accounting Committee later found that Clinton’s staff had caused about $15,000 worth of “damage, theft, vandalism and pranks,” although no prosecutions occurred.

Clinton’s new memoir was published in November

Clinton has long faced questions about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in 2009 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking of minors.

In his book, he admits to flying on Epstein’s private jet, the Lolita Express, in 2002 and 2003, but dismisses allegations that he ever visited the disgraced financier’s private island, Little Saint James. visited the US Virgin Islands.

Clinton claims Epstein offered the plane to support his foundation and they talked about economics and politics.

He writes, “The bottom line is that even though I was able to visit my foundation’s work, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of doubt afterwards. I wish I’d never met him.’

Clinton added: “I always thought Epstein was strange, but had no idea of ​​the crimes he committed.

“He hurt a lot of people, but I didn’t know about it, and by the time he was first arrested in 2005, I had stopped contacting him. I’ve never visited his island.’

The former president also opened up about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

In his book, he recalled a 2018 NBC “Today Show” interview in which he was asked if he had ever apologized to Lewinsky.

Clinton writes, “I said, ‘No, I felt terrible then.’

“Have you ever apologized to her?” I said I apologized to her and to everyone else I had wronged. I was blown away by what came next.

“But you haven’t apologized to her, at least not according to the people we talked to.”

‘I fought to contain my frustration as I replied that although I had never spoken to her directly, I had said so publicly on more than one occasion. [one] One time I had regrets.”

The 42nd president subsequently admitted that the interview “was not my finest hour.”