Trump and Clinton Aides Clash in Shouting Match at Post-Election Forum

Emotions are still quite raw, especially from the Clinton side.

With the exception of an ill-advised comment blaming FBI Director James Comey for her defeat, it seemed as though she was living up to her word and staying out of the way while Trump prepared to take office.Yet almost three weeks after the election was decided, Clinton’s campaign made a decision to take part in an effort calling for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

When Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie called Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon an “unbelievably brilliant strategist”, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri jumped in. Trump has disavowed support from white supremacists and said he is the “least racist” person.

“You did, Kellyanne. You did!”

Trump inaccurately wrote in a tweet last week that millions of people voted for Hillary Clinton illegally – a claim without any known basis in fact. “Look”, he told the Washington Post, “I’m as progressive as anybody, okay?” Conway said that Trump won what matters in a presidential election, the electoral college. At latest count, Clinton led by almost 2.5 million votes, according to the Associated Press.

Sixteen months of tension boiled over Thursday in a conference room at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He was the better candidate.

Joel Benenson, Clinton’s chief strategist, disagreed – saying it was obvious that Trump’s campaign was run on hate and bigotry. “That Comey letter had a huge effect”, he said, calling it “probably a game-changer”. “I was not surprised there would be a feisty program”, Schultz said.

To which Conway volleyed back, “Hey, guys, we won”.

“It would be a monumental, moral and political mistake to pursue the prosecution of Hillary Clinton”, Rev. Jackson said during a speech in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on November 17. The Trump team had elevated the so-called alt-right movement into the mainstream, they said, with Palmieri adding that Clinton’s speech denouncing the extremist movement was the proudest moment of the campaign. In American history, only President Obama has received more (and Clinton may yet match Obama’s 65.9 million votes from 2012). He disputed the Trump team’s argument that his economic message led him to victory. This will not change the outcome of the election. Mandy Grunwald, a senior Clinton adviser who also worked for Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic primary challenger, for helping “soften up” Clinton and paving the way for Trump’s victory. No one seems to remember the 2000 election, where Al Gore lost to George W. Bush in Florida by 537 votes.

“She should have gotten 60 or 62 percent of the female vote”, Conway continued, according to Politico.

Trump aides didn’t pretend to always get their boss, either.

It’s unclear what future generations will draw from that, but former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski offered a criticism of the press that shed some light on Trump’s America. Many of these ads featured prominent Republicans criticizing Trump, a part of her campaign’s failed and completely wrong-headed attempt to woo anti-Trump Republicans. Trump, of course, did go there, setting off one of the more lengthy and damaging feuds of his campaign. “I hear this heroic story of him connecting with voters”, Grunwald said.

“The media wants to focus on what the statement said”, Lewandowski said to scattered laughter from attendees, “but the visuals and the timing did not happen by happenstance”. Obama’s aides said he does not take back his critique of Trump but that he is determined to focus on a smooth transfer of power to the new administration. “The American people didn’t”.

But despite so many such flare-ups, there was no knockout blow to the Trump campaign.