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Clinton Considered ‘Permanently Relocating’ to New Zealand After
Defeat
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May, 2018
Failed
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told an audience in New
Zealand Monday that she gave “some thought” to permanently
leaving the United States and settling in that country after Donald
Trump scored his upset victory over her in 2016.
“I
want to thank some of you for sending good wishes a very long way
during my campaign and the months that followed. I received a number
of invitations from Kiwis to permanently relocate here,” Clinton
tells the Auckland, New Zealand audience in a video posted by an
organ of the Republican National Committee.
“I
must say, I really did appreciate the offers, and gave them some
thought,” Clinton follows up over the audience’s laughter.
The
remarks came as part of a speaking engagement with Growth Faculty, an
Australian business group that bills itself
as “a leading education provider that gives you access to the
world’s greatest business minds.” Previous high-profile speakers
include President Barack Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett and
left-wing Hollywood superstar George Clooney.
Hillary’s
speech was preceded by
a meeting with New Zealand’s left-wing feminist prime minister,
Jacinda Ardern, who won her office last September – despite coming
second in the popular vote – by allying with the
Populist-nationalist New Zealand First” party. The anti-open
borders New Zealand First’s leader, Winston Peters,
has spoken positively
of President Trump and his agenda, and is often compared to
him by the Left in New Zealand and the United States.
“When
she won I was thrilled because, after [the U.S. election], to see a
young woman become Prime Minister was such a shot of optimism,”
Clinton told New Zealand’s Stuff news site about Arden, again
blaming her own loss, in part, on Americans’ “sexism and
misogyny.”
“I
was surprised at the level of ingrained sexism and misogyny in
people’s reactions and the coverage of the campaign. And the more I
thought about it and studied about it, the more I realised was a
factor,” Clinton told Stuff, as she promoted her
book, What
Happened? which
documents this and other theories as to why she lost to Donald Trump.
New
Zealand is known as
a country in which it is relatively easy for wealthy Americans to
attain legal residency. As such, after the 2016 election, it was one
of the most frequently cited destinations
for disaffected Hillary supporters upset enough by the 2016 election
result to depart their country. As for Clinton herself moving to New
Zealand, she told the Growth Faculty crowd she ultimately decided
against it. “I’m going to stay put, because we have work to do in
my country as well,” she said.
A sychophantic interview on NZ TV
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