Donald Trump released a statement Friday afternoon following the release of FBI documents from the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers that suggested the agency should have prosecuted Clinton.
“Hillary Clinton’s answers to the FBI about her private email server defy belief,” Trump said. ‘I was absolutely shocked to see that her answers to the FBI stood in direct contradiction to what she told the American people. After reading these documents, I really don’t understand how she was able to get away from prosecution.”
Trump has, obviously, been vocal in the past about his frustration that Clinton was not prosecuted for actions that he claims put classified information at risk. He did not elaborate in the statement on what in the documents shocked him.
FBI Director James Comey cleared Clinton in a July press conference announcing the end of the probe, but said that she and her aides had been “extremely careless” in their handling of classified information.
Trump’s senior communications advisor, Jason Miller, had put out a lengthier and more detailed statement earlier Friday that painted Clinton as irresponsible and as someone with bad judgement.
“Hillary Clinton is applying for a job that begins each day with a Top Secret intelligence briefing, and the notes from her FBI interview reinforce her tremendously bad judgment and dishonesty,” the statement read. “Clinton’s secret email server was an end run around government transparency laws that wound up jeopardizing our national security and sensitive diplomatic efforts.”
“Clinton’s reckless conduct and dishonest attempts to avoid accountability show she cannot be trusted with the presidency and its chief obligation as commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces,” he concluded.
