Hillary Clinton writes in What Happened that she felt like Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones
HILLARY Clinton has compared herself to Cersei Lannister during the Game of Throne’s character’s shame walk in her new book.
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HILLARY Clinton has written in her new book that Donald Trump fans acted like she was Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones during the US election campaign, constantly shouting “Lock her up”.
Mrs Clinton wrote in What Happened, where she contemplated the role sexism played in her failed presidential bid that, “crowds at Trump rallies called for my imprisonment more times than I can count.”
“They shouted, ‘Guilty! Guilty!’ like the religious zealots in Game of Thrones chanting, ‘Shame! Shame!’ while Cersei Lannister walked back to the Red Keep,” Mrs Clinton wrote.
Game of Thrones fans will remember the end of Season 5 when Cersei was stripped naked and marched through the streets of King’s Landing as citizens jeered and threw garbage at her.
In her memoir, Mrs Clinton said she was overwhelmed by the “flood of hatred” she faced in the run-up to election day, saying she was “one of the most admired public servants in America” after her tenure as Secretary of State.
“Now people seemed to think I was evil ... Was this all because I’m a woman? No. But I believe it was motivation for some of those chanters and some of that bile.”
Originally published as Hillary Clinton writes in What Happened that she felt like Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones