White House: Obama never lied about Hillary Clinton’s emails

Published October 25, 2016 9:22pm ET



President Obama’s accounting of his email correspondence with Hillary Clinton when she was his secretary of state is “entirely factual,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday.

“I can’t verify the integrity of these emails,” Earnest told reporters traveling with Obama as he fundraised in California, speaking of illegally obtained messages from Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, that were published by WikiLeaks and apparently show the Clinton camp challenging Obama’s assertion that he didn’t know Clinton was using a private email account.

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