On Friday, Clinton sought to thread through those remarks, saying she “may have short-circuited” her answer.
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Clinton was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for using a private email server while she was secretary of state.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus Friday bashed Clinton’s inaccessibility throughout the campaign.
Her comments Friday came before an unusual audience: the media. She stressed the high unemployment rates for black and Latino communities and said her administration would focus on creating jobs in communities where unemployment “remains stubbornly high”. We’ve got to build on the progress that we’ve made.
Looming over Clinton’s appearance in front of a ballroom full of journalists in Washington, D.C., was her relative lack of interactions with reporters. That seemed to contradict Clinton’s assertion that she did not send any emails marked classified. Clinton last held a formal press conference more than eight months ago.
Hillary Clinton restated her claim Friday that the FBI assessed her as “truthful” in investigations into her handling of classified material over a private email server, saying she didn’t elaborate enough when she used that characterization during a weekend interview with Fox News. Trump at first laughed off a crying baby at his campaign event “don’t worry about that baby; I love babies”.
Trump spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement that Clinton’s “habitual lying about the use of her secret server to send and receive classified, top secret information shows her blatant disregard for national security”.
“I was pointing out in both of those instances that Director Comey had said that my answers in my F.B.I. interview were truthful”, she continued.
This new explanation drew jeers from Republicans.
Comey said that it was “possible that she didn’t understand what a “C” meant when she saw it in the body of the email like that”. Clinton’s statement today is less a clarification of her previous statement and more a confirmation that she still has trouble with the truth.
The email controversy has proven to be the biggest drag in how voters perceive Clinton, despite the campaign’s best efforts to paint a more flattering public image.
“Were 67 per cent of the people in NY wrong?”
“We have to recognise that of course some of the appeal is xenophobic and racist and misogynistic and offensive”, she said. There are too many people taking the podium for us to include them all, so we’re only evaluating the most memorable.
Whether or not her statements proved to be erroneous in hindsight says nothing about her knowledge and intention when she stated what she believed to be true. “He is harkening back to the most shameful chapters of our history and appealing to the ugliest impulses of our society”. “We need to stand up and say Trump does not represent our country”. “Now, if in retrospect … some different agency said but it should have been [marked classified], though it wasn’t, it should have been, that’s what the debate is about”.
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A Latina reporter noted that President Barack Obama is sometimes criticized as the “deporter in chief” and asked Clinton how her record would differ.
