Former President Bill Clinton, caught in his own wilderness of a small town New York bookstore, pointed a finger at FBI Director James Comey for his wife's election loss – while casting the winner, President-elect Donald Trump, as a know-nothing.

'James Comey cost her the election,' Clinton said, according to a column in The Record-Review, a weekly newspaper that covers the towns of Bedford and Pound Ridge, New York – communities close to the Clintons' Chappaqua.

A newspaper reporter had dipped into a local, independent bookstore for some holiday shopping with his wife and ran into a man with 'short, white hair and reading glasses propped on the bridge of his nose,' whose 'unmistakable voice from Hope, Arkansas, was the giveaway.'

It was ex-President Clinton and he was ready to take questions.

A gentleman at the bookstore asked the Democrat if he thought Trump was smart.

'He doesn't know much,' Clinton replied. 'One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.'

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Bill Clinton, seen watching his wife concede on Nov. 9, took questions about the election from patrons in a small town New York bookstore

Bill Clinton, photographed during his wife's concession speech, said Donald Trump called him that day and said, 'She was tougher than I thought she'd be'

'He doesn't know much,' Bill Clinton said of President-elect Donald Trump (left), while the 42nd president blamed FBI Director James Comey (right) for Hillary Clinton's loss

Politico uploaded photos of the newspaper's print edition, as the editorial wasn't published online.

With the Q&A session coming on the heels of U.S. intelligence officials saying Russia was deliberately trying to sway the election for Trump, Clinton was asked by another shopper if this revelation surprised him.

It didn't.

'You would need to have an single-digit IQ not to recognize what was going on,' Clinton replied.

Turning to Comey, and sounding like his wife and her campaign chairman John Podesta, both of whom have placed blame on the FBI head, Clinton explained that the letter he sent to Congress less than two weeks before the election did irreparable damage.

'We were up seven points,' Clinton noted.

The caveat that no further evidence of illegal activities had been found was also lost on the public, the former president pointed out.

After Hillary Clinton lost, Bill Clinton said he spoke with Trump on the phone, calling the conversation cordial, but hinting that it was a little weird as the president-elect acted 'like it was 15 years ago' and they were still friends.

'She was tougher than I thought she'd be,' Trump reportedly told the former president, meaning the comment as a compliment.

He also mocked Trump for calling his win a 'landslide.'

'Landslide?' Clinton mused. 'I got something like 370 electoral votes. That was a landslide.'

Clinton correctly cited the number that he won during the 1992 election against incumbent President George H.W. Bush. He performed even better in 1996 against Republican Sen. Bob Dole, receiving 379 electoral votes.

Electors from the Electoral College are voting today, but Trump should get 306 votes, though some 'Hamilton electors' may vote their conscious and not select the president-elect.

Hillary Clinton won 232 electoral votes, while 270 votes are needed to win.

As far as what's next for Hillary Clinton, her husband ruled out one high-profile government job.

One of the customers asked if President Barack Obama could use a recess appointment and put her on the Supreme Court.

After acknowledging that President Dwight D. Eisenhower did such a thing, Bill Clinton suggested it wasn't in the cards.