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.
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Clinton absurdly claimed in her interview with Chris Wallace a week earlier that FBI Director James Comey had said she had been “truthful” and her answers had been consistent with what she’d told the American people. Clinton said she and interviewer Chris Wallace “spoke past each other” and she attempted to clarify what she had meant.
He continued, “She was saying what Director Comey acknowledged to be true, that when she spoke to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. the FBI thought her answers in that setting were truthful”.
Quite the contrary. Comey noted numerous times that Clinton did, in fact, lie about her private email server.
“I know that this is something that she’s learned from, and we’re going to be real transparent, absolutely”, Kaine said.
LISA DESJARDINS: In fact, last month, Comey testified that some things Clinton said before Congress and in public were false. But he has also questioned the accuracy of some of the public statements she’s made about the issue.
He added that Clinton, a former secretary of state, was “totally unhinged”.
The ongoing email scandal, along with the Democratic presidential nominee’s admission that her brain briefly “short-circuited”, has given the GOP an opening to launch a new line of attack against her.
GOWDY: Secretary Clinton said, “I did not e-mail classified significant to anyone on my e-mail”.
Kaine wasn’t the only politico who weighed in on Clinton’s week in the press on Sunday, although he offered perhaps the most unabashedly positive analysis.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2016 National Association of Black Journalists’ and National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ Hall of Fame Luncheon on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, at Marriott Wardman Park in Washington.
“It’s not hard to see why she hasn’t held a press conference in 244 days”, said the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus.
No, no, he didn’t say that, but that’s not even what I’m talking about.
Clinton said she took “seriously” the problems she has had winning voters’ trust.
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If his nomination does come up for a vote, Kaine says, “Of course I’d vote for him”. Asked what the most meaningful conversation she has had with one of them, she said she was “blessed to have a crew of great friends”. There were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents. PolitiFact asked a linguistic professor to run Clinton’s remarks through a phonetics computer program and found that when she said “aren’t”, she hit the “n” but somehow missed the “t”. “They’ve supported me. They’ve chastised me”.
