In typical fashion, the White House has refused to acknowledge that the tweet which went viral worldwide was a typo error on the part of the President. To pull it off, Russians would have needed to be "guided by Americans", she added later.
She said she believed that Trump conspired with the Russians to interfere in the election and that his campaign "guided" the Russians to "weaponize information" against her. "I got paid for the speeches I made", she said.
"I also think I was the victim of a very broad assumption that we were going to win", Clinton said.
"We weren't in the same category as the other side", she said.
Perhaps attempting to escape the afterglow of his unusual tweet that included the now famous combination of letters "covfefe", President Trump revived his old favorite moniker for Clinton on Wednesday: "Crooked Hillary".
It was in response to another message President Trump had posted which slammed Mrs Clinton, calling her "crooked" and a "terrible candidate".
He also wrote that the battleground swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania that Mrs Clinton lost were never looking "even close to safe".
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This time she blamed the New York Times for its coverage of the e-mail scandal, the Democratic National Committee for providing her with bad data and former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey for the late October e-mail surprise. Trump's tweet was either comedic gold or an actual policy statement, but no one could really tell which.
The message was finally deleted early Wednesday, and Trump joked about it in a subsequent tweet.
Clinton's rehashing of the 2016 election results and the reasons she lost that were outside her control has become a regular feature of her public appearances and apparently will account for a significant portion of her forthcoming book. He gave no further explanation.
Clinton cited Wikileaks' release of adviser John Podesta's emails just an hour after Trump's controversial "Access Hollywood" tape leaked as an example of how forces within the United States may have played a role in guiding the Russians. A special counsel, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, was appointed to lead an investigation after Trump fired Comey.
Later Wednesday, President Trump responded to her remarks on Twitter.
"That is incredibly unsafe", she said. "It's absurd to suggest that any Democratic candidate who was using the DNC data in 2016 was inheriting nothing, as Secretary Clinton said".
"Putin wants to bring us down", Clinton said.
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