Scott Pelley at 60 minutes got Hillary and Tim Kaine to sit down for a very friendly chat about their convention, and during the interview Pelley asked some rather pointed questions about the DNC emails. Hillary spoke at length about how she felt about people using religion as a political weapon. She said:
“I am adamantly opposed to anyone bringing religion into our political process… that is absolutely wrong and unacceptable”
So far so good. But right before that, she said “I haven’t read any of those” (referring to the email in which the CFO of the DNC proposed to the CEO of the DNC and others that someone ask about Bernie’s belief in God). She later added “I haven’t followed it” (the DNC email scandal) and “I don’t have any information about this, and so I can’t answer specifically”.
This bizarre answer opens up a fair question: Did she read any of the DNC emails? She claims that she did not read them and therefore has “no information”. I find that very hard to believe. It would take ten or twenty minutes to read the ones which have gotten so much attention. She could ask the people involved to explain themselves if she cared to.
Does she not care what the emails said?
Or did she fib and expect Scott Pelley to accept it?
The answer appears to be the latter. Scott Pelley asked one followup, got the same basic story and he moved on.
This is a just another example of why Hillary’s trustworthiness is lower than Trump’s.
1) 68 percent say Clinton isn't honest and trustworthy
That's according to the CNN poll, and it's her worst number on-record. It's also up from 65 percent earlier this month and 59 percent in May. The 30 percent who see Clinton as honest and trustworthy is now well shy of the number who say the same of Trump: 43 percent.
You heard that right: Trump — he of the many, many Pinocchios — now has a large lead on Clinton when it comes to honesty and trustworthiness.
The CBS poll, for what it's worth, has a similar number saying Clinton is dishonest: 67 percent.
This is a problem, and in this case she is adding to it.
Debbie Wasserman Shultz was thrown under the bus for a reason: the DNC emails are a serious issue. I hope Hillary realizes that saying that she didn’t even read those emails is an insult to those who find the DNC’s actions outrageous.
Hillary knows she needs the Bernie voters to help her win this thing. Perhaps she should read the emails in question, and recommend any disciplinary actions that she thinks appropriate to president Obama. As it stands her answers are either tone deaf or insulting to the intelligence of anyone with half a brain.
[update: edited link to 60 minutes video, to take you to the video in question. the original link was to the main article here.]