The Clinton campaign continues to push back against mounting allegations that Hillary Clinton’s private email server transmitted classified information.
On Friday morning the campaign released a fact-checking video disputing the narrative that this is a scandal at all, featuring press secretary Brian Fallon responding to tweets accusing Clinton of foul play.
Fallon presents the controversy as mainly being the result of bureaucratic infighting about what is classified. He first responds to a Fox News tweet stating that “Top secret marking allegedly removed from Clinton emails.”
Fallon describes this characterization as “fundamentally false,” claiming the State Department “confirmed that never happened.” He then challenges an NBC News headline stating that after Clinton gave the State Department her emails she selected, she wiped the server. Fallon, looking visibly annoyed responded, “We told the House committee five months ago that there were no emails left on the server.”
Fallon also says that House Speaker John Boehner is “dead wrong” to describe Clinton as being under a criminal inquiry for the emails. He points to an email the inspector general flagged as classified that still exists on the State Department website, where anyone could read it or print it out, and that was apparently sent to members of Congress. He asked if they were trafficking in classified information.
“Look we fully expect that Republicans are going to continue to want to talk about Hillary Clinton’s emails,” Fallon said. “The reason for that is because they can’t talk about their plan to grow the economy on behalf of the middle class. But that’s what Hillary Clinton is fighting for, that’s why she’s in this race. That’s what voters care about.”
