In an interview with ABC’s David Muir, Hillary Clinton issued her first apology for using a private e-mail server to conduct government business.
The apology came in response to David Muir asking about “words like ‘liar, dishonest, untrustworthy’” being the first that come to mind when Americans are asked about her.
“Does this tell you that your original explanation about the private server, that you did it to carry one phone, out of convenience, that this didn’t sit well with the American people?” he asked.
“Well, David, obviously I don’t like hearing that. I am confident by the end of this campaign, people will know they can trust me and that I will be on their side and will fight for them and their families,” Clinton began. She then apologized:
But I do think I could have and should have done a better job answering questions earlier. I really didn’t, perhaps, appreciate the need to do that. What I had done was allowed. It was above board. But in retrospect, certainly, as I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts, one for personal, one for work-related e-mails. That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility. And I’m trying to be as transparent as I possibly can to not only release 55,000 pages of my e-mails, turn over my server, but I am looking forward, finally, to testifying before Congress. Something that I’ve been asking for, for nearly a year.
Clinton also noted that “everyone” she e-mailed with knew she was using a private server. And that included “many in the White House.” But, she said, “I’m not going to go into names.”





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