Clinton pulls plug on testy presser over server questions
August 18, 2015, 06:22 pm
By Ben Kamisar
Hillary Clinton dismissed the controversy surrounding her private email server and defended her conduct as legal during a press conference Tuesday in Las Vegas.
A visibly aggravated Clinton repeatedly insisted that she had done nothing wrong and seemed frustrated by questions about the issue.
“What I did was legally permitted, number one, first and foremost,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in response to a question from Fox News reporter Ed Henry. “We turned over everything that was work-related, every single thing.”
She added that in “retrospect,” it had not turned out to be convenient to have the private server during her years as secretary of State.
“I regret that this has become a cause celebre. But that does not change the facts, and no matter what anybody tries to say, the facts are stubborn,” she said.
“I know there is a certain level of anxiety or interest in this, but the facts are the facts.”
Asked if the server, which has been turned over to the Department of Justice, had been wiped clean, Clinton initially shrugged and later joked: “Like with a cloth or something?”
Against the backdrop of this appalling demonstration of hubris and corruption by Hillary Clinton (throw in Benghazi, “We’ll get the guy who made that video”, and “What difference does it make?”), I look at her resume: First Lady of Arkansas, then USA (husband’s achievements), one-and-a-half-term US Senator, and disastrous Secretary of State—and I have to ASK: “President” Hillary Clinton? WHY?!?!