By Aaron Miller-
Hillary Clinton will attend the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington with her husband, former president Bill Clinton.
The former U.S Secretary of State will watch the man she rubbished as ”Putin’s puppet” and ”unfit for office” crowned as the 45th president of the United States.
In what will be an emotionally tough time for the former presidential candidate, Clinton will be forced relive the hard reality that she was beating in the elections by an outsider very few thought would win.
Her Husband Bill Clinton was reportedly livid and threw his mobile phone with all its contents over a roof when it hit home that his wife had lost the biggest exam of her life.
Bill Clinton did everything in his power to support his wife, especially during the Wikileaks revelation. He blamed his wife for ignoring his advice to focus on the economy during the bitterly fought campaign period . The pair were reported to have had a really bitter row over the elections- an extra emotional pain Hilary Clinton just didn’t need. On Friday, Bill Clinton, a former impressive president caught in adultery during his presidency, will also be present to witness a man he surely loathed, inaugurated as the most powerful man in the world. It will be a bitter pill to swallow, but he will have an Adam apple big enough to swallow it.
President-elect Trump derided Hillary Clinton throughout the campaign, calling her ”crooked” and describing the Wikleaks revelation about Clinton to be ”bigger than Watergate”. Trump added insult upon injury by saying he would not accept the results of the elections unless he won, and several times alleged the elections were being rigged to make Hillary Clinton win.
HIs claims were without basis or evidence, but following his own victory, Trump’s win was said to have been the result of illegal cyber attacks from Russia. The president-elect has also been said to have strong links in Russia, something he has denied. Bill Clinton will have a very tough time standing next to his wife to honour Donald Trump crowned as president of the United States.
Hillary Clinton will not be the first losing candidate to be so close yet so far on the riser at the US Capitol. Outgoing vice-presidents Richard Nixon in 1961 and Al Gore in 2001 watched close up as the men who beat them by agonisingly narrow margins were sworn in.
Shrum, who worked for Gore, who won the popular vote but lost the electoral college after a dispute settled at the supreme court, said: “He behaved extraordinarily well because he thought it was important for the country. I think Hillary Clinton will behave perfectly.”
Clinton once told her supporters that the risk of Donald Trump winning the elections was too dangerous. She had the overwhelming support of the American press and most of the British press supported her too. President-elect Trump was viewed as just a trier with the wrong temperament for the job. The defeat has devastated her, especially as she appeared to be leading comfortably in the polls.
“This is not exactly the speech at the Capitol I hoped to be giving after the election,” she said. A group of tearful young women thanked her.
Clinton is no stranger to the protocol if presidential inaugurations, having attended inaugurations for her husband in 1993 and 1997 and looked on as Barack Obama, who defeated her in the Democratic primary, took office in 2009. Her decision to attend must have been tough, and it will take a while for her to fully recover psychologically from the bitter blow of her defeat, especially to Donald Trump, whom she could not stand.