Hillary Clinton condemned Trump officials for conducting government business via private email after a 2016 presidential election cycle in which she was repeatedly slammed for using her own server while secretary of state.
“The hypocrisy of this administration, who knew there was no real scandal, who knew that there was no basis for all their hyperventilating,” Clinton told SiriusXM’s Zerlina Maxwell. “No, we’re finding with the latest revelations ― they didn’t mean any of it. It’s just the height of hypocrisy.”
Clinton was the subject of “Lock her up!” chants during many of Trump’s rallies on the campaign trail, referencing an FBI investigation into her handling of classified information as the country’s top diplomat from 2009 to 2013. Then-candidate Trump promised Clinton would “be in jail” if he were in the Oval Office.
“If they were sincere about it, I think you’d have Republican members of Congress calling for an investigation,” she said before admitting that her reliance on a private email server was “a dumb mistake but a dumber scandal” during the interview late Monday. “I haven’t heard that yet.”
News broke on Sunday that White House adviser Jared Kushner used a personal email account set up shortly following the Nov. 8 election for official business. Subsequent reporting revealed fellow current and former White House staffers Ivanka Trump, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Gary Cohn, and Stephen Miller also depended on private accounts.
Although aides are supposed to use government email for their work, the Trump administration did not break any laws with their personal addresses if they forward official messages to their work accounts. Clinton, however, utilized an unauthorized server for a longer period of time.
