<p>Total shock, no concession speech prepared, Clinton reveals, in European interview.</p> 
<p>In a television interview broadcast on Ireland&#8217;s &#8216;&#8217;Late Late Show&#8217;&#8217;, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, opened up on the unfolding of events on election night 2016.</p> 
<p>Promoting her campaign memoir, &#8216;What Happened&#8217;, Clinton described the night and its aftermath as &#8216;&#8217;painful&#8217;&#8217; and &#8216;&#8217;so terrible&#8217;&#8217;.</p> 
<p>&#8216;&#8217;I would have to go lie down because it was so excruciating&#8217;&#8217;, she joked to interviewer Ryan Tubridy in a candid conversation, filmed near her home in Chappaqua, New York.</p> 
<p>&#8220;I was in a state of shock. I had not prepared a concession speech,&#8221; the former presidential candidate revealed, explaining that whilst expecting a close result, her campaign remained confident of victory up until early election night returns began to suggest otherwise.</p> 
<p>Following a final rally in Philadelphia, appearing with then president, Barack Obama, husband Bill Clinton and celebrities including Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi, Clinton recalled that on the eve of polling day &#8216;&#8217;everyone was so confident.&#8217;&#8217;</p> 
<p>[Donald Trump, meanwhile, was predicting a &#8216;&#8217;great victory&#8217;&#8217; as he campaigned in Scranton, PA on the same day.</p> 
<p>&#8216;&#8217;We are just one day away from the change you&#8217;ve been waiting for, for your entire life&#8217;&#8217;, he told supporters on his final day of campaigning].</p> 
<p>Whilst discussing the inauguration of President Trump, asked if she wanted to scream, Clinton told RT&#201;, &#8220;Oh, I did. But that was a common occurrence in those days. You know, scream into the pillow when I saw what was happening.&#8221;</p> 
<p>&#8220;I would have been disappointed and really unhappy if I had lost to a normal Republican. But to lose to someone who I believed profoundly was not ready for the job, was temperamentally unqualified for the job &#8211; was such a burden.</p> 
<p>&#8216;&#8217;I just thought, &#8216;I&#8217;ve let everybody down, I&#8217;ve let my country down, I&#8217;ve let the world down. How did this happen?&#8221; Clinton recalled.</p> 
<p>Acknowledging the role of the email scandal and various shortcomings in her campaign, Clinton also blamed Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the propagation of &#8216;&#8217;fake news&#8217;&#8217; as factors in the election of President Trump.</p> 
<p>&#8220;I knew there were these other forces at work that needed to be unpacked and analyzed. It&#8217;s not only about what happened, it&#8217;s about preventing it from happening again,&#8221; she added.</p> 
<p>With links to Ireland since her involvement in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s, Clinton, who <a href="http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-reviews/review-hillary-clintons-late-late-show-interview-it-wasnt-flawless-but-rte-made-the-right-decision-sending-tubs-36183755.html" type="external">&#8216;&#8217;segued from imposing political figure to slightly wacky grandma&#8217;&#8217;</a> according to one reviewer, told Ireland&#8217;s RT&#201; Television that she was not going to let the experience turn her &#8216;&#8217;bitter and cynical&#8217;&#8217; and that she would use her platform to fight against what she saw as &#8216;&#8217;politically damaging&#8217;&#8217; trends emerging in the US.</p> 
<p>Clinton will later this month appear on British television as her book tour continues.</p> 
<p>Photo Credits: RT&#201; TV</p> 
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Hillary Tells of Screaming Into Pillow, Election Night Shock in Irish TV Interview.