Clinton Email Scandal: 19 Lame Excuses Can't Wipe it Away

 

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a town hall meeting Tuesday in North Las Vegas, Nev. AP

Corruption: Hillary Clinton's email scandal has grown into a credible threat to her candidacy. Worse for her, she continues to offer up a defense filled with contemptible excuses, weak explanations and outlandish dodges.

When asked Tuesday if she wiped her entire private email server clean before turning it over to investigators, Clinton responded with a retort suitable for a playground argument.

"Like with a cloth or something?" she asked, while making a wiping motion with her right hand.

It was a snarky answer — don't tell us the humorless one was trying to employ humor — and it's received a lot of attention.

But it's not Clinton's only try at putting a layer of fog around the personal email account she used while secretary of state. She has let forth a steady stream of nonsense to steer public attention elsewhere.

Here are examples of Clinton misdirection resurrected from its glory days of the 1990s. Some are lame attempts at obfuscation, others are outright lies.

It's a nonissue trumped up by the vast right-wing conspiracy:

"It's being turned into a partisan attack connected, unfortunately, with the continuing Republican partisanship over Benghazi, which was a great tragedy and has already been investigated from one side to the other."

There's nothing to see here:

"I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received."

Who's Huma Abedin?

"It was my practice to communicate with State Department and other government officials on their .gov accounts so those emails would be automatically saved in the State Department system."

Never mind that story that says Bill has sent only two emails in his life:

"The server contains personal communication from my husband and me."

What difference does it make now anyway?

"Everything I did was permitted."

It's really not all that bad:

"Others had done it."

Those other devices you saw me with were merely props:

"I opted for convenience to use my personal email account . .. because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two."

I'll do better after I'm elected president:

"It would have been probably, you know, smarter to have used two devices."

Mixing emails about yoga routines with emails related to national security and high-level international diplomacy is nothing to get worked up about:

"Well, my personal emails are my personal business, right?"