Hillary Clinton On Emails: ‘I’m Sorry It Has Been Confusing To People’

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When asked if she wanted to apologize to the American people for the email server snafu embroiling her campaign for President, Hillary Clinton said simply she regretted it had been “confusing.”

“At the end of the day, I’m sorry that this has been confusing to people and raised a lot of questions,” Clinton said during an exclusive interview Friday on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports.

She also admitted that setting up a private server “wasn’t the best choice.”

“You know, I was not thinking a lot when I got in. There was so much work to be done, we had so many problems around the world. I didn’t really stop and think, ‘what kind of email system will there be?’” Clinton told Mitchell.

When the conversation turned to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, Clinton noted the former reality TV star is “going after so many people, from basketball players” to political opponents, a reference to Trump’s sophomoric response to an op-ed by former NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar earlier this week.

Clinton went on to juxtapose her manner of speaking with Trump’s, saying while she conducts herself as is appropriate for someone seeking the nation’s highest office, the Republican billionaire is “the candidate of being against.”

“He’s great at innuendo and conspiracy theories and really defaming people,” she said of Trump’s brash manner. “Loose talks, threats, insults…They have consequences.”

Watch Clinton’s remarks on Trump below, and the rest of the interview at MSNBC.

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  1. Avatar for meri meri says:

    Wow, terrible non-apology.

    I know she’s not really in hard core campaign mode yet, but I’m really feeling like she’s going to Romney this up.

  2. When asked if she wanted to apologize to the American people for the email server snafu embroiling her campaign for President, Hillary Clinton said simply she regretted it had been “confusing.”

    Sounds like a big “no” to me.

  3. One thing I find confusing about email is why I still have to “CC” when nobody uses carbon copies in the real world anymore.

  4. If she’s keeping up this attitude due to being “advised” to do it, she’s not being well served. To say that it comes across as arrogant is really an understatement.

  5. “You know, I was not thinking a lot when I got in. There was so much work to be done, we had so many problems around the world. I didn’t really stop and think, ‘what kind of email system will there be?’”

    Here’s my main problem with Hillary. She doesn’t hear herself when she spouts nonsense like this. Setting up your own server, rather than using the government provided server, demonstrates conclusively that you DID think about it, a lot. So why does an otherwise articulate and thoughtful politician say something as baldly mendacious as this? I can only figure that she does it reflexively and can no longer see the difference between bullshit and the truth. Even if her impulses are right, she makes me wary. I will work my ass off for her if she’s nominated, unless by some miracle the Republicans put up Bernie, but I will always be a little wary.

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