* Barack Obama phoned Hillary Clinton twice on election night, the first time urging her to concede election as states like Pennsylvania went for Trump
* The second call was to console her
* New book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign gives the play-by-play drama behind Clinton’s defeat at the Peninsula Hotel in Manhattan
* Political journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes tell how Clinton’s confidence at her victory was replaced by anxiety and resignation
* Bill Clinton had a ‘sinking feeling that the British vote to leave the European Union had been a harbinger for a kind of screw-it vote in the United States’
* In early 2016 one of her advisers gave her a clear warning that Trump could win
* The memo cautioned that Clinton ‘should not underestimate his capacity to draw people to the polls who normally do not vote’ and ‘tip the scales in key states’
* The warning was ignored
Hillary Clinton phoned Barack Obama on election night after conceding defeat and told him: ‘I’m sorry’.
The Democratic Presidential candidate stepped into an anteroom for the conversation to apologize for losing to Donald Trump in a conversation which has never previously been reported.
As she took the call Clinton knew she had ‘let her country down’ and that Obama’s legacy lay ‘shattered at Donald Trump’s feet’, a new book reveals.
Minutes earlier Clinton had called Trump and suppressed ‘the anger that touched every nerve in her body’ as she conceded.
She said: ‘Congratulations, Donald. ‘I’ll be supportive of the country’s success and that means your success as president.’
The drama of Clinton’s election in the Peninsula Hotel in Manhattan is detailed in Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Election Campaign.
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WNU Editor: First of many books .... and I suspect most (if not all of them) will be critical of the former Presidential candidate.
