Hillary Clinton: Private E-mail Was a Mistake, But Only ‘Because of the Reaction’

‘I regret that this has caused so much of a diversion, which I believe is unfounded’

Hillary Clinton: Private Email Was a Mistake, But Only ‘Because of the Reaction’ (Mediaite)

Hillary ClintonIn a meeting with Iowa’s Quad-City Times editorial board, Hillary Clinton explained that she does believe her use of a private email server while Secretary of State was a mistake… but only because of the way other people reacted to it.

An editor with the Times pointed out a seeming contradiction in two statements from Clinton on her private email. During the CNN Democratic forum Monday, Clinton insisted that it was not an error in judgment to set up the server. But earlier in September 2015, the Democratic frontrunner apologized and called her private email “a mistake.”

“That to me sounded to me like an admission of an error in judgement,” the editor pointed out. “Why would that not be the case?”

 

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