<div>On Sunday, former President Bill Clinton said in an interview that he thought President Barack Obama got friendlier press coverage than other presidents because of his race. ;</div>
<p>&ldquo;They did treat him [Obama] differently than other Democrats and Republicans,&rdquo; said Clinton on<em> ;CBS This Morning.</em> &ldquo;It was the political press  ;Why? &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know. They liked him. And they liked having the first African-American president, and he was a good president I think. I don&rsquo;t agree with President Trump&rsquo;s assessment of his service.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The ;<em>CBS ;</em>correspondent Mo Rocca also asked if he thought &#8220;the press has been fair to President Trump&#8221; in relation to the Russia investigation and Clinton said that the press has &#8220;tried by and large to cover this investigation based on the facts.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Clinton then said he thought if Trump was a Democrat the press would be giving him a much harder time. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think if the roles were reversed now,&rdquo; said Clinton. &ldquo;I&#8217;m just &#8212; this is me just talkin&#8217;. Based on my experience. If it were a democratic president, and these facts were present, most people I know in Washington believe impeachment hearings would have begun already.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But Rocca pointed out that Trump is being especially criticised by the media.</p>
<p>&ldquo;You hear from Trump supporters who say, &lsquo;the press slobbered all over President Obama. He could do no wrong, and now this guy can do no right. What gives?&rsquo; That there&#8217;s a kind of whiplash,&rdquo; said Rocco.</p>
<p>Clinton also addressed his own scandal when he was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice for lying about his relationship with the former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.</p>
<p>He said he knew the attempt to impeach him wouldn&#8217;t succeed. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Well, I knew it wouldn&rsquo;t succeed,&rdquo; said Clinton. &#8220;It wasn&rsquo;t a pleasant experience. But it was a fight that I was glad to undertake after the elections, when the people had solidly told, by two-thirds or more, the Republicans to stop it. They knew there was nothing impeachable. And so, we fought it to the end. And I&rsquo;m glad.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In light of the #MeToo movement, Clinton is also getting backlash for saying he didn&#8217;t owe Lewinsky an apology and hasn&#8217;t spoken to her since the scandal in an interview with ;<em>NBC</em>&#8216;s Craig Melvin on Monday.</p>
<p>Clinton has been on a press tour promoting his new novel, ;<em>The President is Missing</em>, a fiction book co-written with James Patterson.</p>
<p><strong>Author&#8217;s note:</strong> ;If a Republican said Obama was treated more fairly by the press because he was an African American, they would have been called a racist in every headline. However, it&#8217;s clear that Obama and Trump have had different experiences when it comes to the media. The media has been on a witch hunt to ruin Trump, while Obama could do no wrong.</p>