Hillary Clinton has revealed the crushing phone call she received from Barack Obama hours before Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016.
Before it was announced that the former First Lady had lost out on making history, the former leader reached out and reportedly told her to admit defeat
Speaking in her documentary Hillary, which is streaming on Sky and NOWTV, said: ‘The television commentators and the AP [Associated Press], were calling it for Trump and Obama called me and he said, “I’m really sorry but you probably should concede”.
‘I said, “I’m not going to concede until the morning”, and he said, “Well, you’re probably should call Trump.”’
Hillary admitted that she ‘didn’t see’ her defeat to Trump coming and following the news of his victory, she saw people crying on the sidewalk.
‘It was just like a death. It’s the only way to describe it I guess. I was totally emotionally wrecked,’ she continued.
‘I felt like I had let everybody down I felt like I worried that he wouldn’t rise to the occasion that all the forces he’d unleashed had been rewarded.
‘It made me sick to my stomach. It didn’t make sense.’
Hillary is a four-part series that explores the life and career of Hillary Rodham Clinton including the run-up to the 2016 presidential campaign and features exclusive interviews with Clinton herself, her husband former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, staff, friends and journalists.
From Propagate and award-winning filmmaker, Nanette Burstein, Hillary also offers revealing moments from never-before-seen campaign footage alongside biographical chapters of Clinton’s life and seeks to examine how she became at once one of the most admired and vilified women in the world.
Hillary is available to stream on Sky and NOW TV.
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