Hillary Clinton: Maybe I should have just called Donald Trump out as a creep

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Hillary Clinton has expressed regret about not explicitly labelling Donald Trump a “creep” during one of the presidential debates.

President Trump stoked controversy for closely following the former US presidential hopeful around the stage during their second presidential debate.

The former Secretary of State, who is currently on a tour of the UK, has now reflected on the incident and the presidential race at large. She said she thought it was important to keep her composure during the fiercely divisive presidential race but in retrospect she should have perhaps played Mr Trump at his own game.

During an appearance on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Ms Clinton was asked whether the election could have had a different outcome if she had directly branded President Trump a “creep” on stage.

“I believed that keeping your calm and being composed is part of the job of being president. What turned out to be an entertainment contest - and he was quite good at that - maybe should have engendered a different response from me but it was a game I had not played and it was a game I did not think presidents should play,” she told Marr on Sunday.

She continued: ”I had prepared for that debate and I knew he would be disruptive and difficult. I had concluded in the preparation that the best thing for me to do was to not get sucked into it. But maybe there would have been a moment of confrontation that would have worked to my advantage.”

In her new book What Happened, Ms Clinton said her “skin crawled” as the former reality TV star stalked behind her at a presidential debate in St Louis. She said she wished she had been able to press pause and ask America, “Well, what would you do?”

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