Clinton said he did not know whether foreign governments, companies and other foundation donors were seeking anything in return beyond supporting philanthropy.
“And I don’t think Hillary would know, either,” he said. “She was pretty busy those years. I never saw her study a list of my contributors, and I had no idea who was doing business before the State Department.”
Journalists and political opponents have failed to turn up any proof that Clinton’s State Department sold favors. The Clintons dismiss the allegations as politically motivated.
But an increasing number of Americans have said they find Hillary Clinton untrustworthy in polls.
“Yeah, but I mean we’re used to it,” her husband said.
He described Hillary Clinton as “the rock” of his family and said he believed that Americans would come to learn more about that side of her.
“I trust her with my life and have on more than one occasion,” he said. “And I don’t mean I was facing physical death,” he added in the interview, which CNN said it would broadcast on Sunday.
He described being “plagued by self-doubt” in his late 20s, particularly after an unsuccessful run for Congress. “Whenever I had trouble, she was the rock in the family.” (Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Eric Beech and Peter Cooney)
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