President Barack Obama says Hillary Clinton made an “honest mistake” by using private email that is now “being blown up into just some crazy thing.”
Obama is offering his first public comments on revelations the FBI is looking into more emails. Obama said in an interview posted Wednesday with the online news outlet NowThis that he’s trying to avoid looking like he’s meddling in an independent process.
Obama said there’s a norm with investigations that “we don’t operate on innuendo, we don’t operate on incomplete information, we don’t operate on leaks.” He pointed out that the FBI previously determined Clinton’s mistakes weren’t prosecutable.
Obama says new voters hear “all that noise” and wonder whether they should be worried about Clinton’s behavior. But he says he has absolute confidence in her.
(AP)
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Nixon said the same sort of things about Watergate, and he was lucky to survive with a pension (there were suggestions of impeaching after he resigned in order to deprive him of his pension).
I’m sure he would have said the same thing had Trump done the same thing. And maybe it was an honest mistake (what a joke) but then deleting and obstructing justice after that is inexcusable.
How does he know it was an honest mistake? It’s just conjecture and we don’t hold much importance to that! FBI are working on new evidence so quoting from the previous investigation is immaterial. Yes it IS a big deal Obama… some folk want to know what they’re voting for!
Obama created an email alias, communicated with corrupt Hillary more than 13 times using her unsecured email address on her unsecured server, and then during a publicized national interview lied about what he knew.
it is hard to believe, but neither Obama nor Hillary are on our side.