President Obama went on Fox News Sunday and completely destroyed the Republican Clinton email conspiracy during a powerful presidential interview.
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When asked about the Clinton email “scandal,” President Obama said, “Here’s what I know. Hillary Clinton was an outstanding Secretary of State. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy, and what I also know, because I handle a lot of classified information is that there’s classified, and then there’s classified. There’s stuff that is really top secret top secret, and then there’s stuff that is being presented to the president or the secretary of state that you might not want on the transom or going out over the wire, but it’s basically stuff you could get in open sources.”
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Host Chris Wallace asked President Obama if he can still say that Clinton had not jeopardized national security. The President answered, “I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America’s national security, now what I’ve also said, and what she’s acknowledged here’s a carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned, and she has recognized, but I also think it’s important to keep this in perspective. This is somebody that has served her country for four years as Secretary of State and done an outstanding job. And no one has suggested in some ways as a consequence of how she handled emails that that detracted from her excellent ability to carry out her duties.”
Wallace used the Fox News favorite tactic of suggesting that ‘some people’ are worried that Clinton will get special treatment in the email investigation.
Obama shot the Republican conspiracy theory down, “I can guarantee that, and I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we’ve always operated. I do not talk to the Attorney General about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. We have a strict line and always have maintained it, previous presidents. I guarantee it. I guaranteed that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case. Full stop. Period. Guaranteed. Full stop. Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department because nobody is above the law.”
With one answer to Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace, the great Republican Clinton email conspiracy theory was called home to die.
The Republican conspiracy theory is that the fix is in, and Obama is going to protect Clinton on the email scandal. Ted Cruz is running around the country proclaiming that if he is elected president, he is going to prosecute Hillary Clinton for the email scandal.
Republicans have gotten so desperate that they are hoping for criminal charges against Hillary Clinton because that is the only way they see to stop her from winning the White House.
Fox News has been whining and complaining for years that they wanted an interview with President Obama, but they should have been careful what they wished for because President Obama blew them away. Chris Wallace was never able to push Obama in the slightest. Obama was on Fox to push for his Supreme Court nominee to get a hearing and a vote, but he did great damage to Republicans by blowing up what some say is their last hope of preventing Hillary Clinton from winning the White House.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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