Among all young adults in the GenForward poll, a survey by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 43 percent say Clinton intentionally broke the law in her use of a private email address on a personal server while she was secretary of state, and another 20 percent think she did so unintentionally.
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But Comey explicitly declined to lend his credibility to her public statements when he was pressed to do so under questioning last month.
It was perfectly reasonable for Hillary to believe that she never sent or received classified information.
In the Fox News appearance July 31, Clinton implied that Comey had backed her statement that she had been truthful in how she spoke about the emails matter publicly. So, I may have short-circuited it; and for that I – you know, will try to clarify.
It’s not only the Post and Politifact that have problems with Clinton’s claim.
Comey said “seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received”.
If there is one subject on which Clinton should have a decent, well-prepared explanation, it is that of her email server. The last formal press conference she had was in 2015, and by CNN’s Dan Merica’s count she’s only given 11 informal press “gaggles” to groups of reporters in 2016. But is that really what Comey said? And I will go back to where I started.
That contradicted Clinton’s statements that she, as secretary of state, did not send or receive classified email on her private server.
In an interview with NBC News’ local affiliate in Denver earlier this week, Clinton was pressed on the email probe, which her general election rival Donald Trump continues to harp on though no criminal charges were pressed. Also, Clinton would have been more honest.
The remark about Hillary Clinton’s lack of “sophistication” about classification got a lot of play in the media, but the fact is that he said just a few minutes later that an “expert at what’s classified and what’s not classified” would reasonably conclude the same thing that Hillary concluded.
When Comey was asked during a congressional hearing about whether Clinton lied to the public, Comey begged off, saying: “That’s a question I’m not qualified to answer”.
Hillary Rodham Clinton still lying about e-mails.
“I appreciate your asking that because I was pointing out in both of those instances that Director Comey had said that my answers in my Federal Bureau of Investigation interview were truthful”.
But Clinton seemed to cast voters’ perceptions more as a product of the polarized political climate than as a reflection of wrongdoing on her part.
“Were 67 per cent of the people in NY wrong?” But she was able to prevail and was easily elected to a second term.
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”. “America is better than Donald Trump”, she said.
“I want you to hold me accountable, because the stakes are as high as they’ve ever been in our lifetime”, she added.
The questions began to arise after an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace that aired on Sunday.
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“I am hoping that the outcome of the election … will send a clear message to our Republican friends that it’s time for them to quit standing in the way of immigration reform”, she said.
