Former President Bill Clinton blamed Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 presidential election on “mainstream media” coverage of his wife's email scandal.
In an interview with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Monday's “Morning Joe,” Bill Clinton talked about excerpts from his recent book, “Citizen,” which was published in November.
In his book, he details the anger he felt after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 election and how he believes the media blew the email scandal out of proportion. said.
“For us, it's easier in some ways to know what happened in 2016 than what happened in 2024… because there were two things that happened in 2016 that were very unusual. ” Bill Clinton began in the clip. Highlighted by Mediaite.
“First of all, the mainstream media has repeatedly told the American people that the biggest problem is Hillary's emails. That's what they said.”
At the time, President-elect Trump and other Republicans accused Hillary Clinton of using a private email server to send and receive communications regarding government work. The FBI investigated her actions, but ultimately no charges were brought. However, the case became a major focus of media coverage in the final stages of the campaign, with then-FBI Director James Comey releasing information about newly discovered emails days before the election.
Bill Clinton pointed out in a new interview that it wasn't just right-leaning media that flocked to his wife's email story.
“In fact, even the Trump State Department said she never sent or received any independent emails on a classified personal device,” he said.
“And the second thing is that 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 did something horrible. It is written as if it were done.”
