It took the crowd of roughly 2,100 people, who had enthusiastically welcomed Clinton, to rally around her and drown out the protesters. She used a single private email account for both official and personal business. “Can you get an address for her so I can write a note?” “The economy does better when we have a Democrat in the White House”.
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And, as we see, Ben Affleck was able to contact Hillary directly (as we learned in the recent Benghazi hearing, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens did not have her contact info).
The event on the campus of Clark Atlanta University, a historically black college, was interrupted by protesters chanting “black lives matter”. “It’s hope time. It’s Hillary Clinton time”.
“Now, ladies and gentlemen, I have some – I have some issues to discuss and some proposals to make”, she said. The private server is the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation. The emails also included a few issues about emojis.
The group of 10 Black Lives Matter protesters were quickly escorted away.
Messages from aides Anne-Marie Slaughter and Huma Abedin passed on compliments about Clinton’s looks, with Slaughter writing that her son commented that Clinton looks like former “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow. The Democratic presidential front-runner vowed to run “a love and kindness platform” as she courted African-American voters in Atlanta. Villarreal now serves as her campaign’s treasurer.
In a previous email dump last month, social media users highlighted a plethora of amusing and odd emails from Clinton, which covered topics from her favorite TV shows to updates on Kyrgyzstan. Another email contains a link to an article and asks aide Huma Abedin what her New York Times password is.
“This is example of my continuing concern that we don’t have our records ready”, she said in an email sent in April 2012.
Clinton forwarded it to her assistant with her common request, “Pls print”.
The White House will not allow the release of emails exchanged between President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton from when she was secretary of state, a senior administration official said on Friday.
Mr. Obama told CBS News in March that he learned about Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server “the same time everybody else learned it – through news reports”. One of them was from Clinton to her daughter Chelsea on the night of the Benghazi attack and suggested that Clinton knew al Qaeda-linked terrorists were involved from the beginning, though members of the administration continued to blame the attack on an anti-Islam video. The White House is of the opinion that eventually under the federal record laws these emails would have to become public, but to release them now when the Obama is still in office is not legal. “Prominent black leaders, and a lot of them are based in Atlanta, are just OK with what Hillary is giving us”. But by refusing to release the emails, Obama is following a well-worn precedent that he and his predecessors have established.
Former presidents of both parties have done the same, often insisting that to do otherwise would open the president’s most sensitive deliberations to congressional and public inspection.
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