After almost 250 days, Hillary Clinton finally held a press conference. As you would expect, it was all softball, even including a question from ESPN if you can believe that. One question asked her about her lies to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Clinton’s new term for lying apparently is short-circuited truth.
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Hillary Clinton acknowledged Friday that she may have “short-circuited” when she claimed in a recent interviews that FBI Director James Comey said she was “truthful” about her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Clinton insisted in two televised interviews aired this week, including one with Fox News’ Chris Wallace aired Sunday, that Comey had found her statements “truthful” and “consistent” with what she has said publicly. The Democratic nominee, speaking at a joint convention for African-American and Hispanic journalists, remarked that she was “pointing out in both of those instances that the Director Comey had said that my answers in my FBI interview were truthful.”
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The former secretary of state reiterated the “truthful” assessment in an interview with a Colorado television station later in the week.
“That’s really the bottom line here. And I have said during the interview and many other occasions over the past months, that what I told the FBI, which he said was truthful, is consistent with what I have said publicly,” Clinton explained Friday. “So I may have short-circuited it and for that, I, you know, will try to clarify because I think, you know, Chris Wallace and I were probably talking past each other because of course, he could only talk to what I had told the FBI and I appreciated that.”
Clinton repeated that her email practices represented a “mistake, and I take responsibility for that.”
“But I do think, you know, having him say that my answers to the FBI were truthful and then I should quickly add, what I said was consistent with what I had said publicly. And that’s really sort of in my view trying to tie both ends together,” she added.