Was the Hillary hiking photo staged? Woman who bumped into Clinton in the woods first met her at a fundraiser her family hosted for the candidate

The chance encounter a mother hiking with her daughter had with Hillary Clinton the day after losing the election may not be what it has been made out to seem. Margot Gerster was out hiking with her daughter when she ran into Hillary and Bill Clinton in the upstate New York town of Chappaqua, where the Clintons have a home. The chance encounter Gerster had with Clinton gained national media attention as it was the first time Clinton had been photographed after losing the election. However, some critics allege that their meeting while hiking was staged and not random at all. Adding more fuel to those claims is the fact that it's actually not the first time they've met. When Gerster was in high school, her mother held a fundraiser for Clinton at Crabtree's Kittle House in Chappaqua (left during the fundraiser in the 2000s).

Margot Gerster was hiking with her daughter through the woods near Clinton's New York home on Wednesday

She took a photo smiling alongside Clinton in the Chappaqua area

This is not Gerster's first time meeting Clinton, as her mother held a fundraiser for the senator at Crabtree's Kittle House in the 2000s

Gerster posed for a photo with her sister and Clinton at that event years ago and shared it to her Facebook page before taking it down this week


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