Hillary Clinton just wrapped up an interview at CodeCon. It went sorta like this:
Hillary at #codecon pic.twitter.com/OaKGHzsDny
— Cassandra Centeno (@IamCassandraEsq) May 31, 2017
I didn’t see the whole thing, but here are a few notable excerpts:
Will she run again? “No.”
On her future: “I’m not going anywhere, I have a big stake in what happens with this country. I am very unbroken about what happened because I don’t want it to happen to anyone else. I don’t want it to happen to the values and institutions that we care about in America. I’m going to keep writing and keep supporting people who are on the front lines…”
Democratic strategy going forward: “You’re absolutely right [Democrats] used to leave so many races uncontested, and we’re not going to do that anymore.”
On Russian interference in the election: “The Russians in my opinion could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided by Americans.”
On who was directing Russian interference: “I’m leaning Trump.”
Here’s the full interview (trigger warning: The intro and outro music is “Roar”):
The interview will launch thousands of dude-bro hot takes to the effect that Clinton should sit down and shut up. Trump may have to invent more genuine frontier gibberish to express the proper levels of outrage. Me? I’m glad she’s laying it all out there. We need her voice.
PS: One amusing detail: In response to a question about how well she knew Trump, Clinton said she went to “his third wedding on a lark” and noted that she sat behind Shaquille O’Neal, so she “didn’t see anything.”