‘Crooked Hillary is guilty as hell but the system is totally rigged and corrupt’
CHARLOTTE: President Barack
Obama hits the
campaign trail
with Hillary
Clinton on Tuesday for the first time in the 2016 White House race, seeking to give her a boost in her showdown
with Donald Trump.
The Democratic duo travel to Charlotte, **rth Carolina for a rally, the first in a ****** of high-profile events that
Clinton hopes will energize voters, particularly mi**rities who remain enamoured
with the president, in crucial battleground states where the **vember election will be decided.
Clinton -- who will be travelling together
with Obama on Air Force One Tuesday -- ** doubt will be seeking to reset her
campaign after a ****** of hiccups and revelations linked to the case about her ill-advised use of a private email account and server while secretary of state.
She was interviewed for 3.5 hours Saturday by the FBI which is conducting an investigation into her email use.
It is a sign the probe is nearing its conclusion. But
with just three weeks until the Democratic convention that will formally elect
Clinton as the party **minee, Republicans have seized on the case to highlight Clinton’s lack of trustworthiness among voters.
And Republicans including Trump have savaged
Clinton after it became k**wn that former president Bill
Clinton recently met on an airport tarmac
with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, whose department is overseeing the email investigation.
In an interview aired on Sunday,
Clinton ack**wledged it was unwise for her husband to meet
with America’s top law enforcement ******r,
with the encounter coming in the midst of the FBI investigation that has dogged her
campaign to become the first female president of the United States.
“Hindsight is 20/20,”
Clinton told NBC’s “Meet the Press” programme.
But Trump jumped on the issue, savaging
Clinton for her poor judgment and being part of an elite, “rigged” Washington system. “Crooked Hillary
Clinton is ‘guilty as hell’ but the system is totally rigged and corrupt!” Trump fumed on Twitter Monday.
“Where are the 33,000 missing e-mails?” he added, referring to his rival’s claim that she deleted all of her personal emails unrelated to her job as top diplomat. After her FBI interview,
Clinton refused to speculate on the timeline or possible conclusions of the FBI investigation, and would **t comment on reports saying she would **t be charged.
“I was eager to do it and I was pleased to have the opportunity to assist the department in bringing its review to a conclusion,”
Clinton said of her FBI interview.
Trump has led a relentless
campaign to portray
Clinton as a Washington insider to whom **rmal rules do **t apply.
And in the aftermath of a deadly truck bomb that killed more than 200 people in Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Monday, Trump accused
Clinton of being weak on fighting terrorism.
“Crooked Hillary will never be able to handle the complexities and danger of ISIS - it will just go on forever,” he tweeted, using an acronym for the Islamic State extremist group.
أكثر...