A Westchester mom insisted Saturday that her post-election, viral photograph alongside a beaming Hillary Clinton was no set-up.
Conservative media outlets accused Margot Gerster of faking Wednesday’s allegedly chance meeting on a Chappaqua hiking trail — insinuating it was orchestrated to boost optics for Clinton after her devastating Election Day defeat.
After all, the two met before— when Gerster was in high school and her mom hosted a fundraiser in Clinton’s honor at Crabtree’s Kittle House in Chappaqua, as a Facebook photo posted by Gerster revealed.
But there’s no there, there Gerster, 30, told The Post.
“It was very random. In 100,000 years, I would have never expected running into Hillary Clinton in the woods,” Gerster said.
Gerster confirmed the authenticity of an old picture of she and Clinton — saying it was snapped when at age 14 or 15, shortly after Bill and Hillary Clinton moved to Chappaqua from the White House.
“It was so long ago,I do not remember. All I knew was that I was going to a nice dinner and Hillary Clinton was there,” she said.
The mom dismissed accusations she’s a long-time ally of the Clintons who secretly planned and engineered the heart-warming, post-election snap.
“If I were long-time friends of the Clintons, I wouldn’t be keeping that a secret. I’d be bragging about it to everyone I know,” Gerster said.
Gerster claimed she’s never donated to any Clinton campaign, volunteer for her or has any close personal ties to the former first family. Federal Election Commission records show no political donations from Gerster.
Gerster said she feels badly that the authenticity of her Facebook post has been called into question, but doesn’t regret posting it.
“Obviously there some negativity about it out there,” she said. “It was a very positive experience for me and a lot of other people. That’s why I posted it.”