They included the pop star Lady Gaga, Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former President Jimmy Carter.
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Clinton has said she did not knowingly send or receive classified information through her private email system, a practice the government forbids.
The Good Will Hunting and Argo star emailed the former secretary of State on April 16, 2012, about an initiative he was starting to provide security sector reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Whether you believe that Clinton is as trustworthy as Sanders on these issues is up to individual voters to decide of course, but I would personally support the candidate who has a long track record on the subject.
She asked NAACP Charleston Branch President, Dot Scott, and other members of the NAACP to work with democrats and republicans to pass reforms that would be felt in the streets of South Carolina.
Another male student who was vocal in the discussion outside the event also added, “We’re not going to allow for Hillary to come here and to have a cookie-cutter Black conversation and to exploit Black production for her vote”.
Senator Sanders has also faced aggressive protests from the Black Lives Matter movement, which interrupted one of his rallies over the summer. While none of the correspondence exposes any criminal activity between Hillary Clinton and her rich and famous friends, it does reveal an unsettling safety net of upper class support that the candidate has.
class=”glossaryLink cmtt_Politicians” Bernie Sanders’ agenda items seem to set the tone for the Democratic primary debates. The rest of the roughly 30,000 emails will continue to be let go by way of next yr, as the race for president heats up much more. Clinton’s plan would make the change retroactive.
“She wants it to be wonderful for you”, wrote Clinton aide Melanne Verveer.
The Valentine’s Day email is followed by one a few months later, when Clinton has a “new berry”. African-Americans could make up a majority of the Democratic electorate, or close to it, in several of those states, a potential boon for Clinton, given that her closest rival, Vermont Sen. “Pls advise. Thx”, she wrote. “I am quite bereft that I’ve lost the emoticons from my latest new old berry”.
At first, Clinton acknowledged them, saying “Yes they do and I’m gonna talk a lot about that in a minute”, but then she tried ignoring them by shouting her remarks over the slogans the activists were chanting.
“This court-ordered email release is another reminder of why Hillary Clinton can not be trusted in the White House”, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement.
It is unclear whether Clinton and Obama emailed each other during the time span of the other Clinton emails the State Department has made public. The White House decided against the release of emails between Obama and Clinton.
In all, the White House is attempting to block the release of a small number of emails – not because of their content, but due to the principle that a president’s communications should be kept confidential.
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The emails may be withheld until after Mr. Obama leaves office under the Presidential Records Act, according to the White House, a law that governs public access to the president’s records.
