White House weighs in on Hillary Clinton's new book: 'Sad'

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had one word to describe Hillary Clinton's new tell-all memoir on the 2016 campaign — "sad."

“Whether or not he's going to read Hillary Clinton's book, I'm not sure. I would think he's pretty well-versed on what happened, and I think it's pretty clear to all of America,” Sanders said about President Donald Trump at Tuesday’s press briefing, offering a play on the title of Clinton’s book, “What Happened.”


The former secretary of state’s book, released Tuesday, offers Clinton’s perspective on perhaps the most unconventional presidential campaign in modern U.S. history. Peppered throughout the memoir are criticisms of Trump’s style, rhetoric and policies.

Sanders, whose father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, has bragged often about his successes against the “Clinton political machine,” characterized the book as the former secretary of state’s “last chapter” in public life.

“I think it's sad that after Hillary Clinton ran one of the most negative campaigns in history and lost and the last chapter of her public life is now going to be defined by propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks,” the press secretary said.