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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 24 augusT 2017
Clinton: My ‘skin crawled’ as Trump hovered on debate stage

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hill- women. Now we were on
ary Clinton says Donald a small stage and no mat-
Trump’s pacing, hovering ter where I walked, he fol-
demeanor onstage dur- lowed me closely, staring
ing an October 2016 presi- at me, making faces. It was
dential debate made her incredibly uncomfortable
so uncomfortable “my skin he was literally breathing
crawled.” She says in her down my neck. My skin
upcoming book that Trump crawled.”
shadowed her so closely Clinton says, “It was one of
she had to resist shouting those moments where you
out, “Back up you creep, wish you could hit pause
get away from me.” and ask everyone watch-
The Democratic presiden- ing, ‘Well, what would you
tial nominee recounts her do?’ Do you stay calm,
struggle to keep com- keep smiling and carry on
posed during that pivotal as if he weren’t repeat-
Oct. 9 faceoff in St. Louis edly invading your space?
less than a month before Or do you turn, look him
the election. Two days ear- in the eye, and say loudly
lier, their bitter campaign and clearly, ‘Back up you
was rocked by the release creep, get away from me! I
of footage in which Trump know you love to intimidate In this Oct. 9, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, right, speaks as
bragged aggressively women, but you can’t in- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump listens during the second presidential debate at
about groping women. timidate me, so back up.’” Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016.
During the town-hall style Clinton says she “kept my Associated Press
debate, the 6-foot-3 Trump cool, aided by a lifetime of
repeatedly hovered over dealing with difficult men
Clinton, who’s closer to trying to throw me off.”
5-foot-5, as she responded “Maybe I have over-
to questions. learned the lesson of stay-
“This is not OK, I thought,” ing calm, biting my tongue,
Clinton says in her audio digging my fingernails into
narration of “What Hap- a clenched fist, smiling all
pened,” set for release the while determined to
Sept. 12. “It was the second present a composed face
presidential debate, and to the world,” Clinton says.
Donald Trump was loom- Excerpts of Clinton read-
ing behind me. Two days ing from the book aired
before, the world heard Wednesday on MSNBC’s
him brag about groping “Morning Joe.”q
Historical thriller takes

readers back to turbulent era

Associated Press mission to take out the fac-
An engineer from Oslo at- tory.
tempts to disrupt the Nazi Nordstrum becomes the
war machine at the height go-to guy for the impossi-
of World War II in “The Sab- ble missions to stop the on-
oteur,” the latest historical slaught and assist the Allied
thriller by Andrew Gross. forces. If he succeeds, his
Kurt Nordstrum has lost his fi- efforts will make the path to
ancee, and much of every- victory easier. If he fails, the
thing else he holds dear. He Germans will have a path
sneaks back into his home- to full domination.
town and sees the full inte- Gross takes readers back
gration of German forces. in time to a turbulent and
Nordstrum learns of an iso- terrifying era. Like his previ-
lated factory hidden inside ous novel, “The One Man,”
Norway where the Nazis he immerses the reader in
are building a terrifying the 1940s with sympathetic
weapon. With a few close characters while focusing
friends, he hijacks a pas- on the lone wolf who faces
senger ship bound for Ger- impossible odds, but has
many and steers it toward no other choice. He also
England. With the help of uses real historical figures
some British forces, they ar- and events with some slight
rive in Scotland. With the in- name changes, demon-
formation in hand, they join strating that with a talented
a team of Norwegian Free- writer at the helm, the past
dom Fighters with a suicidal can truly come alive. q