The former chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean said Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s responses on the controversy surrounding her emails have been too “lawyerly.”
“One of the problems is that Hillary Clinton is an incredibly smart lawyer,” Dean, a former Democrat presidential candidate, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Adding that lawyers sometimes have trouble using “plain language,” Dean said his advice for Hillary would be to move away from legal parlance.
“You’ve got to think about this in plain language,” Dean said. “And maybe that’s what she needs to do.”
Clinton now faces an FBI inquiry into how she handled classified information on her private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
“I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified,” Clinton said last week.
Dean, a Clinton supporter, dismissed the substance of the email controversy, claiming that the classified designations happened after the material was sent and the furor is partly “manufactured” by a “bored” press.
It’s the “usual press frenzy and I think it will go away because there’s no substance to it,” said Dean.
