Mike Pence said Tuesday that Hillary Clinton got special treatment when running a private email server when she led the State Department, and said his son and his opponent Tim Kaine’s son would both be court-martialed from the Marine Corps if they did the same thing.
“If your son or my son handled classified information the way Hillary Clinton did, they’d be court-martialed,” said Pence during the vice presidential debate in Farmville, Va. Both the GOP vice presidential nominee and Democratic vice presidential nominee’s sons are currently serving overseas in the Marine Corps.
Kaine shot back that Pence was wrong and that a federal investigation cleared Clinton of any wrongdoing.
“You don’t get to decide the rights and wrongs of this. We have a justice system that does that,” he said. Kaine said a Republican FBI director had cleared Clinton of any wrongdoing for running a private email server.
FBI director James Comey did chide the former secretary of state for her careless handling of classified information, though he did not believe there was enough evidence to warrant criminal charges.
