John Podesta didn’t take kindly to President Trump’s suggestion that he panned his former boss, Hillary Clinton, in a trove of hacked emails leaked during the campaign.
Referring to a comment Trump made during his press conference Thursday that he was “saying bad things about the boss,” the former Clinton campaign chairman tweeted that the remark was coming “from a president who wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped him in the face.”
1 @realDonaldTrump “Podesta saying bad things about the boss” from a President who wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped him in the face
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) February 16, 2017
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Podesta’s hacked emails were made public in a series of releases by WikiLeaks, some of which revealed damaging information showing campaign officials colluding with the press. It is unclear which email Trump was referring to on Thursday.
But, “for the record,” Podesta said, “I never said bad things about Hillary in the emails the Russians stole to help elect him POTUS.”
2 For the record, I never said bad things about Hillary in the emails the Russians stole to help elect him POTUS
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) February 16, 2017
During his press conference, in which he condemned the “dishonest” media for doing “a tremendous disservice to the American people,” Trump said that if Podesta worked for him and had spoken ill of him behind his back, he would have “fired him so fast his head would have spun.”
