Just when you thought we were safe from the onslaught of Clintons the country has been subjected to for the last 26 years, Chelsea Clinton said on Monday that she might run for elective office in the future.
Speaking at an Edinburgh international book festival, as she promoted her new book, “Start Now! You Can Make a Difference,” designed to target 7- to 10-year-olds and impart “facts, stories, and tips on how to change the world,” according to Entertainment Weekly, Clinton said running for office is a “definite no now,” but a “definite maybe” in the future.
According to The Guardian, Clinton said:
At the federal level, as much as I abhor so much of what President Trump is doing, I have a great amount of gratitude for what my congresswoman and my senators are doing to try to stop him at every point. While I disagree with the president … I think my family … is being really well represented. But if that were to change, if my city councillor were to retire, if my congresswoman were to retire, my senators, and I thought that I could make a positive impact, then I think I would really have to ask my answer to that question … For me it’s a definite no now but it’s a definite maybe in the future because who knows what the future is going to bring?
Clinton then waxed eloquent about her dislike for President Trump, stating:
I’m outraged every day by something our president has done or said or left undone or neglected, or who he has recently bullied on Twitter or television. … For me, sometimes, I think I’m just so fundamentally my mother’s daughter that I’m far more outraged by the Trump administration ripping children away from their families at the border and not having reunified those children with their families now for months, than I am about anything he has ever done to my families.
Clinton attended Stanford University and Oxford University, where she studied international relations; she worked as a special correspondent for NBC News from 2011 to 2014, reportedly earning an annual salary of $600,000.