Billionaire businessman Donald Trump said Sunday that he likes Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s chances of defeating front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I think she’s got a big problem with the emails, and obviously her numbers are going down drastically, so somebody like Biden could probably go in and do very well and maybe win,” Mr. Trump said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Mr. Biden has not entered the race for the Democratic nomination, but speculation about a Biden candidacy has intensified after an inspector general’s investigation of a “limited sampling” of Mrs. Clinton’s emails last month found classified information in four on her private server, which she had used exclusively during her tenure as secretary of state.
Mr. Trump, who’s running for the Republican presidential nod, called a Biden candidacy “a real possibility because what she did was absolutely, in my opinion, illegal and I don’t think she’s going to be allowed to run if they have a prosecutor who’s going to be honorable.”
Mrs. Clinton has denied that she handled classified information on her private server but has since amended her defense to say that the information was not “classified at the time.”
“If you look at Gen. [David] Petraeus, what he did is nothing compared to what she’s done, and his life is in ruins,” said Mr. Trump, referring to the former CIA director who resigned in 2012 and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge after he was accused of providing classified information to his mistress, who was also his biographer.
• Valerie Richardson can be reached at vrichardson@washingtontimes.com.
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