Another 4 Pinocchio Lie for Hillary Clinton

After officially becoming the Democratic Party nominee for president, Hillary Clinton made a rare media appearance, going on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace for an exclusive post-Democratic National Convention interview. During the interview, Clinton made some comments about her email server that raised eyebrows and inspired a Washington Post fact-check.

As the topic of Hillary Clinton’s email server came up in the interview, Wallace played video of Clinton saying “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified materials. I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time. I had not sent classified material nor received anything marked classified.”

At the four minute mark in the interview, Clinton responds to that video by telling Chris Wallace that “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.”

The problem is that isn’t what Director Comey said. In his statement on the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s email server, Director Comey described Hillary Clinton’s and her colleague’s actions as “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

Additionally, Comey revealed that “seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same matters.”

The Washington Post awarded Clinton’s claim FOUR Pinocchios, indicating Clinton egregiously contorted the facts to her favor.

Hillary Clinton’s decision to appear on Fox News comes after a very patriotic Democratic Convention in which American flag-waving delegates shouted down anti-war protesters with chants of “USA!” and the Democrats paraded military officials on stage to sing Clinton’s praises and denounce the Republican nominee.

Some believe that Clinton is making a play for national-security-first Republicans who are uncomfortable with Donald Trump as commander-in-chief. Appearing on Fox News immediately after the DNC could be read as an overture to some of those voters.

But should Sec. Clinton intend to win those voters over, perhaps it would be best for her not to lie about that time she endangered national security by holding classified information on a private email server in violation of State Department protocol and federal law. (For more from the author of “Another 4 Pinocchio Lie for Hillary Clinton” please click HERE)

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