Clinton Slams Pompeo’s Pledge To Release Her State Department Email

Topline

Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton took a swing at her successor Mike Pompeo during an interview with New York Times podcast Sway on Monday, calling his pledge to release email from her time in the Obama administration “pathetic.”

Key Facts

Key Background

Clinton has remained a constant preoccupation for Trump during his presidency. In 2016 then-FBI Director Jim Comey twice found Clinton shouldn’t face criminal charges for using a private email server while serving as Secretary of State, and in 2019 a State Department investigation said there was no “persuasive evidence” of mishandling of classified information. Clinton said during the interview the constant and continued attacks on her come from an “air of illegitimacy that surrounds Trump’s presidency,” that stem from Russian interference in the 2016 election and the fact that Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes. Still, Trump regularly mentions her at campaign rallies, and insisted her email was an issue during a 60 Minutes interview which aired on Sunday.

 Crucial Quote

“It makes me literally sick to my stomach to think that we’d have four more years of this abuse and destruction of our institutions, and damaging of our norms and our values, and lessening of our leadership, and the list goes on,” Clinton said during the interview.

 Tangent

When asked during the interview if she thought a woman president would have better handled the coronavirus, Clinton said she said she had “no doubt, especially if it were me. I mean, I was born for that.”

 Further Reading

Hillary Clinton Says It’s Different This Time (New York Times) 

‘It’s pathetic’: Clinton knocks Pompeo for vowing to release more of her emails (Politico)

Clinton says most Republicans want to see Trump gone but can’t say it publicly: report (The Hill)