Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has called Hillary Clinton’s action of deleting classified emails from her private home server “criminal.”
Appearing via telephone on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, Trump said “the fact is that what she has done is criminal,” regarding Clinton’s ongoing email-gate “scandal.Clinton used her private email server to conduct government business, and later scrubbed the server clean of emails she field were not pertinent to government transparency, before handing the server over to the State Department.
Trump even went as far as to compare Clinton’s actions with those of former military commander and Director of the CIA, David Petraeus, who resigned when he as accused of sharing classified government information with his then-mistress.
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Completing this poll grants you access to Shark Tank updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to this site's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.“What she did is far worse than what General Petraeus did and he’s gone down in disgrace,” Trump said. “What he did is not as bad as what Hillary Clinton did, and it’s similar. But it’s not as bad. I mean, she got rid of her server, he never did anything like that.”
The former general pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information.
Trump garnered 18%, Jeb Bush 15%, Scott Walker 10%, while the rest of the field of candidates failed to reach double-digits.
“I’m not that surprised because I see the kind of crowd we’re getting. We’re getting the biggest crowds by far and the biggest ovations,” he said.
Trump being Trump, he couldn’t restrain himself from taking a big shot at all of the elected government officials in Washington, D.C.
(CNN)“People are tired of these incompetent politicians in Washington that can’t get anything done,” he said. “They can’t make deals. They can’t do anything.”
