CNN’s Keilar to GOP Rep Turner: Why Are You Not Holding Trump to the Same Standard as Hillary Clinton?

‘You said, ‘Former Secretary of State Clinton has put our national security at risk by showing a blatant disregard for highly sensitive classified information’’

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EXCERPT:

KEILAR: “You mentioned Hillary Clinton. I would like to read a couple of things that you said about Hillary Clinton's e-mails in 2016. You said -- quote -- in May of that year: 'Hillary Clinton would be an awful president, as she has shown a blatant disregard for our laws.' You said: 'Former Secretary of State Clinton has put our national security at risk by showing a blatant disregard for highly sensitive classified information." In October, you said: "I believe her actions as secretary of state were not in accordance with the law.' Some of your comments were said before it was even clear what was in her e-mails. You're not holding Donald Trump to the same standard. Why?”
TURNER: “Well, there are -- there are -- there's a significant difference here. One, there was active transmission of ongoing diplomatic classified communications that were traveling through Hillary Clinton's server in her residence, which innately and inherently are going to be at risk. These are 2-year-old documents that are in the president's residence. We don't know what's in them. They're not ongoing, certainly now, of which they waited two years and a weekend after they got their warrant to raid his home.”

 

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