Hillary Clinton seems to have taken the busy news cycle of the past 24 hours – where all media eyes were turned toward the horrific on-camera murder of a Virginia television news crew – to slide in a quasi-apology about her seemingly never-ending email server scandal.
The Democratic president candidate told reporters in Iowa on Wednesday: I should have made a better decision about this.
“I know people have raised questions about my email use as secretary of state and I understand why. I get it,” she said, the Huffington Post reported. “So here’s what I want the American people to know. My use of personal email was allowed by the State Department. It clearly wasn’t the best choice. I should’ve used two emails – one personal, one for work, and I take responsibility for that decision. And I want to be as transparent as possible, which is why I turned [over] 55,000 pages, why I’ve turned over my server.”
On that – the turning over of the server – Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., has made it clear his view is Clinton didn’t voluntarily turn it over to the FBI for inspection.
In a mid-August interview on CNN, Gowdy said of the FBI’s receipt of the server from Clinton: “They generally don’t ask. They generally tell you to do so and I doubt very seriously that they ‘asked’ her to turn her server over. If they have jurisdiction, they don’t need to ask. They just go get it.”
Following, it was revealed her server had been wiped clean – another red flag for critics, who then saw that act as proof the former secretary of state was trying to hide something.
Clinton, however, continued to express confidence in her innocence.
On Wednesday, she said: “I’m confident that this process will prove that I never sent nor received any email that was marked classified.”
