Report: Bill Clinton encouraged Trump to play bigger role in GOP
Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. (AP)
In what would have been a fascinating telephone conversation to overhear, The Washington Post that Donald Trump, the leader in every recent poll of GOP presidential candidates, and Bill Clinton, the 42nd president and husband to the leader of every poll of Democratic White House contenders, had a “casual chat†about politics in late May.
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Suffice it to say, Trump took Clinton’s advice, though The Post
Trump would go on to announce his presidential bid on June 16
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Neither the Hillary Clinton campaign nor the Trump campaign commented for the article.
Current campaign rhetoric notwithstanding, Trump and the Clintons have been friendly in the past, as evidenced by the former first couple’s attendance at Trump’s 2005 wedding as well as past donations from Trump to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaigns.