Bill Clinton seemed lost Monday when he was confronted over his accusations against Bernie Sanders’s supposed supporters.
After an event in New Hampshire, ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega caught Clinton on the rope line.
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“Do you think the Sanders campaign in playing dirty?” Vega asked Clinton.
After a long pause, the former president responded, “No, I just think we ought to have — I’m a democrat, small ‘d’ — I believe we should have the same rules for everybody.
“And if there is — I think we should be straight-forward and transparent with all this,” he said, seemingly groping for words.
“It sounded like you were on the attack yesterday,” Vega pointed out.
He denied it.
“No, I held up articles, remember? I tried to only put into the public domain information that was not widely known I thought was relevant,” Clinton said, trying to get away from the reporter.
“Thank you,” a man trailing Clinton said, trying to cut off Vega and get in her way.
“Some of that stuff was pretty ugly you held up there,” the reporter continued. “Sexism on that side — is that the allegation?”
Clinton suddenly became hard of hearing.
“What?” he said.
“Allegations of sexism on the other side,” she said again. “Is that what we’re seeing on the other side right now?”
“Well, I’ll leave it to you to get on the websites and see what they say on them we people come after Hillary.”
During a campaign event Sunday night in Milford, New Hampshire, Bill Clinton accused anonymous Bernie Sanders supporters of sexism on the internet.
“Vicious trolling,” he dubbed apparent comments made towards female Clinton supporters on the papers he was holding, “that are literally too profane often — not to mention sexist — to repeat.”
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