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Clinton, whose
wife, Hillary, lost last month's election after spending
millions of dollars more than her Republican rival, was spotted
at a bookstore near the couple's hometown a suburb of New York
City earlier this month. One person asked him, "Is Trump smart?"
according to the editor of a local newspaper.
"He doesn't know much. One thing he does know is how to get
angry, white men to vote for him,” Clinton replied, according to
the Record-Review of Bedford and Pound Ridge. Clinton also said
he had received a telephone call from Trump the day after the
November election, the newspaper said.
The report of the impromptu question-and-answer session was
widely picked up on Monday.
Trump waited until Tuesday morning to hit back.
"Bill Clinton stated that I called him after the election.
Wrong, he called me (with a very nice congratulations). He
'doesn't know much'..." Trump wrote on Twitter.
Trump added in a second post: "especially how to get people,
even with an unlimited budget, out to vote in the vital swing
states ( and more). They focused on wrong states."
Trump has used Twitter regularly as his megaphone on everything
from personal beefs to U.S. policy on China. Trump's individual
targets have ranged from Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, whose
questions during a presidential debate angered Trump, to the
leader of an Indiana steelworkers union who disputed the number
of jobs saved by a Trump deal in that state.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu)
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