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Clinton tries to 'clarify' email comments – and adds to confusion
Hillary Clinton tried Friday to “clarify” her widely disputed claim that the FBI director had declared her statements on her email scandal “truthful” – but may have ended up adding to the confusion, delivering a lengthy and at-times conflicting explanation that the Donald Trump campaign later called “pretzel-like.”
She was asked early on about her statement, on “Fox News Sunday,” that FBI Director James Comey had affirmed her answers on her email controversy “were truthful and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people.”
Fact-checkers have roundly slammed that claim...
Clinton, however, seemed to stand by her comments on Friday, saying she was referring to her answers in her FBI interview -- while also acknowledging she may have “short-circuited” her explanation.
In her clarification, though, Clinton gave a difficult-to-follow response.
"Judging from the way Hillary Clinton kept lying at today’s event, it’s not hard to see why she hasn’t held a press conference in 244 days.”
After Clinton’s initial statement to “Fox News Sunday” – which she repeated later in the week – fact-checkers piled on. The Washington Post awarded her “four Pinnochios.” PolitiFact gave her a “Pants on Fire” rating. FactCheck.org declared her claims “false.”
Clinton tries to 'clarify' email comments – and adds to confusion | Fox News
Hillary Clinton tried Friday to “clarify” her widely disputed claim that the FBI director had declared her statements on her email scandal “truthful” – but may have ended up adding to the confusion, delivering a lengthy and at-times conflicting explanation that the Donald Trump campaign later called “pretzel-like.”
She was asked early on about her statement, on “Fox News Sunday,” that FBI Director James Comey had affirmed her answers on her email controversy “were truthful and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people.”
Fact-checkers have roundly slammed that claim...
Clinton, however, seemed to stand by her comments on Friday, saying she was referring to her answers in her FBI interview -- while also acknowledging she may have “short-circuited” her explanation.
In her clarification, though, Clinton gave a difficult-to-follow response.
"Judging from the way Hillary Clinton kept lying at today’s event, it’s not hard to see why she hasn’t held a press conference in 244 days.”
After Clinton’s initial statement to “Fox News Sunday” – which she repeated later in the week – fact-checkers piled on. The Washington Post awarded her “four Pinnochios.” PolitiFact gave her a “Pants on Fire” rating. FactCheck.org declared her claims “false.”
Clinton tries to 'clarify' email comments – and adds to confusion | Fox News