Bill Clinton attributes Hillary's loss to Trump to the ‘mainstream media’
During Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, a controversy involving her emails captured significant media attention. Read Full Article at RT.com
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The U.S. has accused Russia of interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, yet has not presented evidence to support these claims.
Former President Bill Clinton has attributed Hillary Clinton's defeat to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election to the “mainstream media” coverage surrounding her email controversy. For years, Democrats have alleged that Russia played a role in aiding Trump's victory over Clinton, despite the lack of evidence to substantiate these allegations.
In a recent MSNBC interview, the former president spoke about an excerpt from his book, ‘Citizen: My Life After The White House’, which was released in November. He highlighted the “rage” he experienced following Hillary Clinton’s loss, especially since polls at the time predicted her win.
Clinton criticized media outlets for their emphasis on his wife’s controversial use of a private email server for official communications during her tenure as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, rather than a government-controlled server.
He described the 2016 election as the “darkest election possible in the United States,” arguing that the media exaggerated the email scandal. “It’s easier for us to know what happened in 2016 in some ways than what happened in 2024 in terms of all of it because in 2016 you had two highly unusual things,” he told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough. “First of all, the mainstream media told the American people repeatedly that the biggest issue was Hillary’s emails – that’s what they said, not just Fox.”
The focus on Hillary Clinton’s emails became particularly pronounced in the later stages of the 2016 campaign, overshadowing the Democratic candidate. At that time, U.S. intelligence agencies asserted that Russia had hacked the emails of senior Democrats as part of an extensive effort to undermine Clinton's campaign and support Trump.
“When in fact, even the Trump State Department said she neither sent nor received a single solitary email on her personal device marked classified,” Clinton stated, asserting that his wife “followed the rule that then existed; the rules were changed after she left office.”
In the aftermath of her defeat, Democrats have attributed Clinton’s loss to 'Russian meddling,' which ignited years of speculation regarding ‘collusion’ between Trump and the Kremlin. Their allegation of Trump’s connections to Russia stemmed from a falsified ‘dossier’ created by a British spy. Subsequently, Democrats suggested that WikiLeaks’ release of internal Democratic National Committee documents and personal emails from Clinton’s campaign manager was linked to Moscow, alongside claims that ‘Russian bots and trolls’ spread ‘misinformation’ on social media, thus impacting the election.
The FBI investigated Clinton’s use of a private email server and concluded that she and her team had been “extremely careless,” yet found no evidence of foreign interference.
James del Carmen for TROIB News
Former President Bill Clinton has attributed Hillary Clinton's defeat to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election to the “mainstream media” coverage surrounding her email controversy. For years, Democrats have alleged that Russia played a role in aiding Trump's victory over Clinton, despite the lack of evidence to substantiate these allegations.
In a recent MSNBC interview, the former president spoke about an excerpt from his book, ‘Citizen: My Life After The White House’, which was released in November. He highlighted the “rage” he experienced following Hillary Clinton’s loss, especially since polls at the time predicted her win.
Clinton criticized media outlets for their emphasis on his wife’s controversial use of a private email server for official communications during her tenure as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, rather than a government-controlled server.
He described the 2016 election as the “darkest election possible in the United States,” arguing that the media exaggerated the email scandal. “It’s easier for us to know what happened in 2016 in some ways than what happened in 2024 in terms of all of it because in 2016 you had two highly unusual things,” he told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough. “First of all, the mainstream media told the American people repeatedly that the biggest issue was Hillary’s emails – that’s what they said, not just Fox.”
The focus on Hillary Clinton’s emails became particularly pronounced in the later stages of the 2016 campaign, overshadowing the Democratic candidate. At that time, U.S. intelligence agencies asserted that Russia had hacked the emails of senior Democrats as part of an extensive effort to undermine Clinton's campaign and support Trump.
“When in fact, even the Trump State Department said she neither sent nor received a single solitary email on her personal device marked classified,” Clinton stated, asserting that his wife “followed the rule that then existed; the rules were changed after she left office.”
In the aftermath of her defeat, Democrats have attributed Clinton’s loss to 'Russian meddling,' which ignited years of speculation regarding ‘collusion’ between Trump and the Kremlin. Their allegation of Trump’s connections to Russia stemmed from a falsified ‘dossier’ created by a British spy. Subsequently, Democrats suggested that WikiLeaks’ release of internal Democratic National Committee documents and personal emails from Clinton’s campaign manager was linked to Moscow, alongside claims that ‘Russian bots and trolls’ spread ‘misinformation’ on social media, thus impacting the election.
The FBI investigated Clinton’s use of a private email server and concluded that she and her team had been “extremely careless,” yet found no evidence of foreign interference.
James del Carmen for TROIB News
