Former President Bill Clinton believes President Obama’s blackness made him popular.

Clinton was on CBS This Morning promoting his new novel, “The President Is Missing.” When he spoke about the media’s treatment of Obama, he initially said he didn’t get the appeal but then he brought up his fellow president’s race reports Deadline.

“Why? ‘I don’t know,'” Clinton said. “They liked him. And they liked having the first African-American president, and he was a good president I think. I don’t agree with President Trump’s assessment of his service.”

Mr. Clinton, Fox News and MAGA Twitter would beg to differ. 

Clinton also addressed the Monica Lewinsky scandal, saying he knew the impeachment campaign against him would fail.

“Well, I knew it wouldn’t succeed,” Clinton said. “It wasn’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’m glad.”