Hil’s all write with her fans
Huge crowds for her book zinging Trump
HORDES OF HILLARY Clinton fans flocked to the Barnes & Noble in Union Square on Tuesday to catch a book signing by the vanquished presidential contender.
Long Island resident Allan Holland, 63, awoke at 3 a.m. to catch a 3:47 a.m. train to Manhattan to see his Democratic hero.
He arrived outside the book store at 5 a.m., a full six hours before Clinton was slated to appear, only to find himself No. 200 in line.
“I’ve always been a Hillary supporter,” said Holland, of Woodbury.
“I came here for her first book so I couldn’t miss this one.”
Holland and the others were forced to wait even longer than expected. Clinton arrived at noon, an hour after the scheduled start time.
Her book, “What Happened,” which was released Tuesday , offers her recollections of the 2016 presidential election.
Many of the Democratic diehards sitting on the bookstore’s third and fourth floors said they were still struggling to grapple with her loss to Donald Trump.
“We’re upset, we’re angry, we’re resentful that she’s not our President,” said Susan Toomey, 69, of Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.
“I skipped ballet class just to be here. As long as I get to see her, I don’t care how long I wait.”
Ava Paloma, 33, beamed after being one of the first to get her book signed by the former secretary of state.
The West Village resident and some friends slept on the sidewalk after showing up at Barnes & Noble about 11 p.m.
A photo of the the group appeared on social media — catching the eye of Clinton staffers who sent over a pie from Joe’s Pizza.
“We just wanted to make sure we got the chance to meet her,” Paloma said. “I’ve been in love with her since I was a little girl. She’s a female role model that I’ve respected since I was very young.”
In a recent interview with the hosts of the “Pod Save America” podcast, Clinton said she wrote
the book in part to “sound the alarm about what I think could still and may well happen.” “I think Trump, left to his own devices, unchecked, would become even more authoritarian than he has tried to be,” Clinton said. One person who likely won’t be reading the memoir is Trump. “I would think that he is pretty well versed on what happened, and I think it’s pretty clear to all of America,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. She called it “sad” that “the last chapterof Clinton’s public life is going to be defined by propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks.” The book’s most acidic comments target Trump. “In 1992 and 2008, change meant electing dynamic young leaders who promised hope and renewal,” she wrote. “In 2016, it meant handing a lit match to a pyromaniac.”