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I’m not planning to go for top job yet, says Chelsea
Politics: Clinton daughter attacks US president
Chelsea Clinton has said she has not ruled out running for office in the future.
She told the Edinburgh International Book Festival that while she “abhorred” Donald Trump’s presidency, she has no current plans to follow in her parents’ footsteps.
She strongly criticised the US leader on issues such as the separation of children from their parents at the Mexican border.
“At 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,” Ms Clinton said.
“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?”
Ms Clinton, who was promoting her children’s book on women who have persisted against adversity, added: “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.”
Ms Clinton, who was just 12 when her father Bill Clinton entered the White House and whose mother Hillary stood unsuccessfully against Donald Trump for the presidency in 2016, spoke of how critics made fun of her.
“I feel incredibly protective of Barron Trump, who is now 12 years old, the same age that I was,” she said, referring to the current president’s son. “I disagree with his father on everything but people have made fun of, bullied him, for his appearance, or for him being more private.
“Equally I have no patience for that because he’s a child and he deserves a childhood as every child does.”
“Who knows what the future is going to bring?”