Hillary Clinton has no defense for her baffling decision to shirk protocol and use a private email server when conducting government business as secretary of state. (In this, even the liberal Slate magazine agrees!) Rather than justify her conduct, Clinton’s sycophants have generally trotted out non-sequiturs (Jeb Bush had a private email address!) or issued political rather than substantive defenses (Paul Begala, for example, claimed that the American people are essentially too dumb to care.)
And now Lanny Davis – defender of dictators, Penn State, and all things Clintonian – has come out with perhaps the funniest “defense” of Clinton’s email trickery yet.
On an interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace on Sunday morning, Davis said “a secretary of state traveling to 111 countries might be needing to have one email system versus people in the department who should use the official system.” When pressed on the point, Davis continued, “as secretary of state she might feel the need, traveling all over, with a hand-held device . . .” (at this point, Wallace — fortunately for Lanny Davis — interrupted.)
Suffice it to say, this is . . . not a defense. Why would Clinton’s well-documented travels necessitate the use of a private email server? Emails are portable. Instead, it seems that Davis attempted to slip in one of Clinton’s unrelated talking points – she was a great secretary of state because she traveled a lot! – and pretended it’s a defense of her email abuse. Perhaps next, Clinton’s defenders will say, “As potentially the first female president, she needed her own email system…”
