A Democratic congressman said Wednesday that he believes there’s a chance Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign may be derailed by inquiries into the private email account she used exclusively during her tenure at the State Department.
“I just never feel like I have a grasp of what the facts are,” Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) told Louisville TV station WHAS on Wednesday. “Clearly she has handled it poorly from the first day. And there’s the appearance of dishonesty, if it’s not dishonest.”
Earlier this week after a Las Vegas town hall, the Democratic presidential front-runner got into a heated exchange with a Fox News reporter over whether the server that housed the private email account was wiped clean before it was turned over to the FBI.
“What, like with a cloth or something?” Clinton joked when asked whether she personally wiped the server.
“They can do whatever they want to with the server to figure out what’s there and what’s not there,” she told reporters. “That’s for the people investigating it to try to figure out. But we turned over everything that was work related. Every single thing.”
Yarmuth told WHAS that he thought the whole situation could “boil over” if Clinton was being truthful when she said she neither sent nor received classified information from the private email account.
“But, I still think there is a chance this could upend her campaign,” he added.
And there’s the appearance of dishonesty, if it’s not dishonest.
THAT is the whole point. I’m not saying this will upend her campaign, but it has not been helpful. Setting up an entirely different server from the gov and doing ALL your business on there without a doubt is giving the impression you are hiding something, even if you are not. It was dumb.
Additionally, A State Dept Memo in 2011 from Hillary herself said to AVOID doing government business on private emails. Not only did she not abide by her own memo, she actually did the complete opposite by doing ALL her gov business on private email, essentially “do as I say, not as I do”. One of the worst things a manager or leader can do.
How anyone can debate that what she did was not “stupid” is incomprehensible. Sure, it was not “illegal”, and no liberals are saying it was. Many of us are saying it was “stupid”, and in private I am sure even Hillary is agreeing with that statement. As soon as she sent out that memo, she should have changed her way of sending emails.
The record has not been set straight, and I am thinking maybe the communications set-up of a Secretary of State is confidential. It is untrue to say she conducted all her business via e-mail. Of course that’s not true. She mostly used it to schedule other kinds of communication. She had a secure fax (one of the e-mails involved setting it up). Classified information is run through a totally different system, not the Internet we use. I know this from comments at the Washington Post, where a lot of people on the comment boards have worked in government. I don’t know if this was a travelling set up or something accessed at embassies (probably the latter). She also really likes personal meetings. I’m reading Hard Choices right now. She is very person-to-person. It is a complete distortion to say that e-mail was her primary means of anything.
Nope. The only thing that can upend her campaign is Dems/Indies not going out and voting for her. I’m not a supporter of hers but you’d better believe that I will vote for a Dem who can win. She can win. Yes, what she did was stupid considering that she was always looking to run for POTUS. However, I want a Dem that can win. Right now, (unfortunately) she’s the only one.
This constant smiping at her from Democrats is unnerving. She is a fighter and has more experience than anyone except Joe Biden, who has his own negative. Bernie will seem too extreme for the vast middle, and a lot of what he proposes is not practica, whereas Clinton is quite pragmatic. We have months to go, so I hope they go through that damn server and find all those e-mails about Chelsea’s wedding. What a crock. Get real, people. We need a Democrat in the White House like we’ve never needed one before!
Yarmuth is a blue dog democrat. He would probably say anything against the front runner of the democratic party because he is really a republican.