Defeated US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said the Brexit vote should have triggered a “bigger alarm” for her campaign - and confessed she went into polling day last November thinking she would win the White House.
Mrs Clinton, 69, admitted she feels a “terrible sense of responsibility” for not beating Donald Trump.
“I thought I’d be a damn good president,” said the Democrat flop.
“I did not think I was going to lose.”
Former US Secretary of State said she was still deeply troubled by the election result.
“I’m not living it every minute of every day but every day I live it,” she told the Sunday Times Magazine.
In his campaign, Trump talked about how a victory for him would be " Brexit plus plus plus".
Clinton admits: "Brexit should have been a bigger alarm than it was," she admit s.
"It was some of the same people working for Trump, advocating for him. They thought, 'Hey, we've got this figured out, just tell a really horrible lie over and over again, keep people off balance and make them think that this will , if not make their lives better , make them feel better.'
"They voted against modern Britain and the EU, believing that somehow this would be good for their small village. It made no sense.
"The same thing played out in my race, but I didn't think we were so vulnerable. But it turned out we were wrong — in part because the Russians played a much bigger role."
Losing to billionaire property tycoon and reality TV star Mr Trump made her defeat even worse.
“If I had lost to what I call a ‘normal Republican’, I would have disagreed with them,” she said.
“I had deep disagreements with George W Bush, but came to understand his world-view ... but I wouldn’t have felt the same sense of real loss for our country, that we elected someone who knows so little, cares even less and is just seeking the applause of the masses.”
Mrs Clinton was favourite to win the bitter race and claimed 48% of the popular vote compared with Mr Trumps 46%.
But he triumphed through America’s complicated electoral college system.
Mrs Clinton said: “I feel a terrible sense of responsibility for not having figured out how to defeat this person.
“There must have been a way and I didn’t find it.”
The former First Lady described making the concession telephone call to Donald Trump as "one of the strangest moments of my life — weirdly ordinary, like calling a neighbour to say you can't make his barbecue".
Mrs Clinton also hit out at former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who is a keen supporter of Donald Trump and the first foreign politician to be welcomed by the new president.
She said of the pro-Brexit politician: "He came to the US to campaign for Trump and spent half of his remarks insulting me in a very personal way and talking about Trump as the alpha male, the silver-backed gorilla. Think of those images and what that says about what's acceptable and what's not."