“I believed her, because I know Sanders, and I know the kind of things that he says about women and to women,” she told the author. “So, I thought that she was telling an accurate version of the conversation they’d had.”
Vitali continued:
“I wish she had done it on mic,” Clinton added. “I wish that she had pushed back in front of everybody. I think it weakened her response that it was after the cameras were supposedly off and, you know, they were just standing there. I think it’s important that you call it out when it happens, and that was my only regret for her: that I wish she had just turned on him and said, ‘You know, it’s one thing to mislead people about your healthcare plan.
It’s another thing to tell someone to her face that a conversation which you know happened didn’t happen.’ I mean, that would have been, I think, a really important moment for her.”
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