During her time at the State Department, Clinton used a private server for official-related emails. The email scandal has dogged the Clinton campaign as an issue questioning her trustworthiness.
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She and Obama were headed to Charlotte, North Carolina for the first in a series of high-profile rallies that Clinton hopes will energise voters, particularly minorities who remain enamored with the outgoing president, in crucial battleground states where the race will be decided.
“I think the DNI, the director of national intelligence, should block [Clinton’s] access to classified information”, he told Fox News host Megyn Kelly Tuesday night, “given how recklessly she handled this during the presidential campaign”.
Trump also said it was wrong to make taxpayers cover the costs of Air Force One for the president and Clinton to fly together.
Clinton is the Democratic presidential candidate and will face Trump in the November polls. Now you really have to wonder about Bill Clinton’s accidental meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
“Everybody thought based on what was being said she was guilty”, he said.
“We now know that she lied to the country when she said she did not send classified information on her server”, Trump said.
In a letter to Comey, Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia said the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommendation not to bring criminal charges against Clinton defied logic, and he is posing eight questions that he says he wants answered by Monday.
Trump said, “It’s rigged” when talking about the FBI’s findings into Clinton’s emails.
Among them was whether she was treated differently from others who were penalized for mishandling classified information.
As he discussed the details of an investigation that unfolded over the past year, he repeatedly admonished Clinton and her aides for their decisions.
Clinton was subject to political and criminal scrutiny for sending sensitive and highly classified state department information from a personal email account.
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Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, expressed surprise at the decision against pursuing charges.
Clinton never returned to the State Department.
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Clinton and Obama both said the experience she would bring to the office would benefit everyone.
