Hillary Clinton Says She Loves Elephants, But They're Breaking Her Heart

[onehandle]

"What is your spirit animal?"

That lighthearted question, posed by an "Ellen" fan on Facebook live, prompted Hillary Clinton to tell a bittersweet story.

"I really like elephants," the presidential candidate told Ellen DeGeneres. "I love the way elephants remember. I love the way ... the matriarch of the family looks out for everybody."



But then she touched on a darker aspect of an elephant's existence: "It just breaks my heart that they're being poached and murdered and babies [are] being left to defend themselves."

Clinton said a naturalist in Kenya told her a story that left her heartbroken. The man had a cocktail party on his veranda, which overlooked a pond where elephants would come to drink.

As the guests watched, one of the elephants approached the group and singled out one woman.



"The elephant got close and then was like staring at all the people, and reached her trunk back and took ahold of a woman's arm who had on an ivory bracelet," Clinton said, "and pulled the woman toward her and then looked at the bracelet and looked at the woman's eyes."



Then she dropped the woman's hand and turned around and left.

"And the naturalist told me, 'I know she knew what it was, and I know that she wanted to know whether, frankly, it was an elephant she could possibly have known.'"

https://www.thedodo.com/hillary-clinton-elephants-1822819469.html

[HassleCat]

1. I'm sorry, but no.

I know many people who have been around elephants while wearing ivory and elephant hair bracelets. This story simply does not ring true.

[bettyellen]

8. You have a lot of friends who have ivory bracelets? Interesting friends.

And they've all been around elephants with their bracelets on... And told you about it- even though nothing happened.
Lol, and you think her story sounds phony ?

[HassleCat]

9. Africans, many years ago.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. LOL. Storytelling, you're doing it wrong. n/t

[MohRokTah]

3. K&R

[nc4bo]

4. Abuela is telling everyone a story.

It's a shame. I don't know if I should believe her or not.

[BuelahWitch]

5. They just don't make 'em like Goldwater these days!

Although she is George W. Bush's "Sister-in-law"...

[Bonobo]

6. That's pretty embarrassing. nt

[msongs]

7. bernie loves F-35s nt

[okasha]

10. The Clinton Foundation

has substantially supported anti-poaching programs in Africa.

Yes, she's telling a story. It's about elephants' intelligence and capacity for "human" emotions, not about a literal occurence.

[TimPlo]

11. And this person was shooting at Clinton in Bosnia

[Vattel]

13. She has also told a "funny" story about killing a duck to help her pro-gun cred.

[geek tragedy]

14. Hillary raises awareness of the problem of poaching

elephants, Bernie supporters respond with incoherent rage.

12 more days.