A Democratic congressman said Wednesday that he believes there’s a chance Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign may be derailed by inquiries into the private email account she used exclusively during her tenure at the State Department.
“I just never feel like I have a grasp of what the facts are,” Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) told Louisville TV station WHAS on Wednesday. “Clearly she has handled it poorly from the first day. And there’s the appearance of dishonesty, if it’s not dishonest.”
Earlier this week after a Las Vegas town hall, the Democratic presidential front-runner got into a heated exchange with a Fox News reporter over whether the server that housed the private email account was wiped clean before it was turned over to the FBI.
“What, like with a cloth or something?” Clinton joked when asked whether she personally wiped the server.
“They can do whatever they want to with the server to figure out what’s there and what’s not there,” she told reporters. “That’s for the people investigating it to try to figure out. But we turned over everything that was work related. Every single thing.”
Yarmuth told WHAS that he thought the whole situation could “boil over” if Clinton was being truthful when she said she neither sent nor received classified information from the private email account.
“But, I still think there is a chance this could upend her campaign,” he added.
