Former President Bill Clinton told MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Monday that he blamed “mainstream media” for his wife Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
“In some ways it's easier for us to know what happened in 2016 than it is to know what happened in 2024,” Clinton said. Because two things happened in 2016 that were very unusual. First of all, the mainstream media has repeatedly told the American public that the biggest problem is Hillary's emails. That's what they said, not just Fox. In fact, even Trump's State Department said she never sent or received a single email regarding classified personal advice. ”
Furthermore, he added: “And secondly, she was following the rules that existed at the time. After she left office, the rules changed. And yet the whole story is as if she had done something horrible. , and then James Comey made it even worse.”
Host Joe Scarborough said: “At a press conference in July, she came out that she had not been charged, but for the first time she decided to speak out about her thoughts.''
“He said she was careless,” Clinton said.
He added: “I think they did it because they thought if she said something bad about Trump, they had to say something bad about her.”
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