Hillary Clinton says apology for infamous email server was ‘against my better judgment’

Hillary Clinton now says her 2016 apology to voters for her infamous email server was a politically calculated move “against my better judgment.”

The former secretary of state used her Hulu documentary released Friday to revisit the issue, which then-FBI Director James B. Comey described during a nationally televised address as “extremely careless” for a U.S. secretary of state.

“Any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for [official conversations],” Mr. Comey said July 5, 2016.

Mrs. Clinton now says that an apology for her decisions should have been avoided because reporters, journalists and voters refused to let her “end it.”

“So against my better judgment, I said, ’OK, fine,’ ” the famous Democrat said of her apology, the Washington Examiner reported. “It turned out to be a mistake because look at all the oxygen it was sucking out of my campaign. But it didn’t end it. It didn’t end it at all. And it never ended, it never ended.”

Less direct lamentations on the matter were also broached in May 2017 by Mrs. Clinton.

“My email account was turned into the biggest scandal since Lord knows when,” Mrs. Clinton said at the 2017 Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. “This was the biggest nothing-burger ever. It was a mistake. I’ve said it was a mistake. And, obviously, if I could turn the clock back I wouldn’t have done it in the first place. But the way that it was used was very damaging [to my campaign].”