Height of hypocrisy...

Clinton calls use of private email by Trump administration 'height of hypocrisy'

By LOUIS NELSON

Reports that several current and former top White House staff members, including Jared Kushner, Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon used their private email accounts for official business puts on display the “rank hypocrisy” of the Trump administration, Hillary Clinton said Monday night.

Clinton, the former Democratic presidential candidate, was attacked regularly on the campaign trail for her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. President Donald Trump frequently used the email server issue as a brush with which to paint Clinton as dishonest and opaque.

“The hypocrisy of this administration, who knew there was no real scandal, who knew that there was no basis for all their hyperventilating. Republican members of Congress who politicized the deaths in Benghazi,” Clinton told SiriusXM radio Monday in an interview picked up by The Huffington Post. “No, we’re finding with the latest revelations ― they didn’t mean any of it. It’s just the height of hypocrisy.”

POLITICO reported over the weekend that Kushner, Trump’s son in law and one of his top advisers, had used his personal email to interact with other administration officials on White House business several times since the president’s inauguration. Bannon and Priebus, both former White House officials, had also used their personal email accounts for administration matters, POLITICO found.

Clinton’s private email server became the focus of an FBI investigation as well as of investigators on Capitol Hill, probes that dogged her throughout the 2016 campaign. She said the fact that Republicans have not similarly jumped to dig into the use of private email accounts by Trump administration officials is proof that election-year attacks against her were politically motivated.

“It is something that if they were sincere about I think you’d have Republican members of Congress calling for an investigation,” she said. “I haven’t heard that yet.”

On Monday, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland requested the White House identify any top officials who used personal email accounts by Oct. 9.