Clinton On Accusations Of Corruption: GOP Has Created ‘Hillary Standard’

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the 107th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People annual convention at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Monday, July 18, ... Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the 107th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People annual convention at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Monday, July 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
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Hillary Clinton pushed back at the corruption accusations that have clouded her 2016 presidential run in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday, saying that she is held to a standard that other politicians are not expected to meet.

“I will take responsibility for any impression or anything I’ve ever done that people have legitimate questions about,” Clinton said in her first joint interview with running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).

But Clinton mentioned the “concerted effort” to convince people that her actions were not always above board, saying “I often feel like there’s the Hillary standard and then there’s the standard for everybody else.”

Asked to elaborate, Clinton said last week’s Republican National Convention saw plenty of the “unfounded, inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks” that she is regularly subjected to.

“I don’t want to try to analyze the reasons,” she said. “I see it. I understand it. People are very willing to say things about me, to make accusations about me that are—I don’t get upset about them anymore, but they are very regrettable.”

Clinton affirmed that she “absolutely” made a mistake by using a private email server as secretary of state, but said there would “not be any such thing in the White House.”

Of the frequent calls to “lock her up” made at the GOP convention in Cleveland, Clinton said she felt not threatened but “sad.”

“I don’t know what their convention was about, other than criticizing me. I seem to be the only unifying theme that they had. There was no positive agenda. It was a very dark, divisive campaign. And the people who were speaking were painting a picture of our country that I did not recognize. You know, negative, scapegoating, fear, bigotry, smears. I just was so—I was saddened by it,” she said.

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