Clinton: I Lied – Truthfully

Hillary still has an e-mail problem. But she did not lie about it because in her mind she told the truth. Which telling continually changed.

Now that it turns out none of those statements was true, Clinton’s new position is that she “had no reason to believe that those emails were classified.”

Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, and her campaign press secretary, Brian Fallon, both used that formulation during interviews on MSNBC yesterday, trying to explain in what sense her false public statements about the emails were “truthful,” as she described them in a jaw-dropping Fox News interview on Sunday. Although what she said was not true, the latest defense goes, she thought it was, so she was truthful.

Mook and Fallon noted that FBI Director James Comey, in his congressional testimony last month, said, “We have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI.” Although Mook thinks that means “everything she said to the FBI was true,” that does not follow, since Clinton could have said false things she thought were true. In fact, according to Mook, that is what happened. “What she said to the FBI is the same as what she said [to the general public],” Mook said. If so, she said things to the FBI that the FBI determined were not true.

So it is not a lie if you can convince yourself you believe it is the truth? Despite the fact that the “truth” changes on a weekly basis? Well OK. Try that in front of a jury.

You know, in this election Trump is disgusting me more and more every day. But there is still no way in hell I want Hillary as President.