Hillary Clinton Lets Me Civil Again

Past Joan Greve
Washington Week Fellow

The Democratic National Convention got off to a bit of a rough start Monday, every bit some supporters of Bernie Sanders fought back the party's attempts to go delegates to unify behind presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The Democrats, dealing with a  brewing controversy sparked by leaked DNC emails that revealed party officials had sought to undermine Sanders' campaign for the nomination, hope that this calendar week will quell some of the intra-party doubts nigh Clinton. The erstwhile secretary of country too remains haunted by some past controversies equally she heads into the full general election confronting Donald Trump. Here are sixteen of Clinton's most controversial statements from this ballot cycle:

i. In August, with questions already brewing over her use of a private email organization as Secretarial assistant of State, Clinton was asked if she had "wiped" the server later on her tenure. Clinton responded with a joke, "What, like with a cloth or something?"

two. Clinton had a misstep during a March town hall in Ohio that has followed her in the months since. Discussing her campaign promise to develop clean energy further, Clinton said, "Nosotros're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." The comment proved and then polarizing and constructive that a candidate for the Supreme Court of W Virginia, where coal employs many citizens, used information technology in a entrada advertizement to separate herself from Washington politics.

iii. Clinton's extensive social media team has occasionally missed the marker, about notably with their post, "seven things Hillary Clinton has in common with your abuela." In addition to using the Spanish word for "grandmother," the mail also cited "el respeto" and a photo with Latin singer Marc Anthony. The postal service was mocked with the hashtags #NotMyAbuela and #NotMiAbuela on Twitter, and many thought it was blatant pandering to Hispanic voters, or "Hispandering."

four. With the FBI investigation over her individual e-mail server as secretary of state well underway, Clinton chose to poke fun at the brewing controversy while at an August event for Iowa Democrats. Clinton mentioned her campaign'south contempo cosmos of a Snapchat business relationship and added, "I love it. I honey information technology. Those messages disappear all past themselves."

v. Besides the Snapchat comment, Clinton has joked on other occasions about the swirling controversy effectually her individual email server while at the State Department. Back in June 2015, while attention a fundraising event, Clinton quipped that the White House'due south hacking past Russian forces would not have happened "had they been using my server." The joke took on added significance in July when the FBI released the results of its investigation into Clinton's server, which found no "direct show" of hacking but implied that it was quite possible given the server's weaknesses.

6. Republicans who oppose Clinton's presidential campaign accept often brought upwardly a annotate the former secretary of state made during the hearings into the attacks on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya. Clinton answered a question nigh what may have prompted the attack by saying, "What difference, at this point, does information technology make?" Some take tried to imply that Clinton was referring to the loss of four American lives at the American consulate in Benghazi.  Simply played in context, Clinton was responding to a question over whether the attackers had been function of a street protest.

7. In September, Clinton finally stated a clear position on the controversial Keystone Pipeline, tweeting, "Time to invest in a clean energy hereafter—not build a pipeline to carry our continent's dirtiest fuel beyond the Usa. I oppose Keystone XL." Simply Clinton had spent years before that angering environmental activists past avoiding a definitive statement on the pipeline, telling a Canadian audience in January 2015, "Y'all won't get me to talk about Keystone because I have steadily made clear that I'm not going to express an opinion."

8. FBI Managing director Jim Comey stirred up Clinton's email controversy in early on July when he released findings of his agency's investigation into her utilize of a individual email server when she was at the State Department.  Comey concluded that the quondam secretary of country had been "extremely careless" and that Clinton had, in fact, sent or received classified material from her personal server. This finding conflicted with Clinton's argument from Baronial, which she has often repeated since: "I did not send classified fabric, and I did non receive whatsoever cloth that was marked or designated classified."

nine. During a tense primary boxing, Clinton's Autonomous rival Bernie Sanders repeatedly requested that she release transcripts from her paid speeches to Wall Street executives after leaving the Land Department. Clinton made hundreds of thousands of dollars in these private speeches merely, when asked about transcripts from them during an April fence, Clinton deflected by citing her legislative tape against big banks and asking Sanders to release his tax returns: "Let's fix the same standard for everybody. When everybody does information technology, okay, I will do information technology. But permit's prepare and expect the same standard on tax returns. Everybody does it, and then we motility forwards."

10. About a year before officially announcing her campaign, Clinton told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an interview that she and former President Bill Clinton had left the White House "non only expressionless broke but in debt." The comment seemed tone-deaf given that, in the years since Clinton's presidency, the couple had earned more than $100 million dollars from paid speeches and other income. Less than two months afterwards, Clinton apologized for the "inartful" comment.

11. The fence over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, took center stage in Oct when Clinton told PBS Newshour's Judy Woodruff that she was walking back her previous support of the bargain. This flip-flop was emphasized in June, when the RNC released 2012 footage of Clinton praising the deal, "This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open, free, transparent, fair merchandise, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field."

12. Speaking to NBC News' Andrea Mitchell following the death of old Outset Lady Nancy Reagan, Clinton credited Reagan with starting "a national conversation" effectually HIV/AIDS. Clinton'south praise of Reagan'due south "very effective, low-cardinal advocacy" rankled many in the LGBT community who felt that the Reagans had done nowhere most enough to end the spread of the deadly epidemic. Clinton later issued an amends, writing, "While the Reagans were potent advocates for stem cell inquiry and finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease, I misspoke about their record on HIV and AIDS. For that, I'm sorry."

13. Clinton raised eyebrows about the influence of her husband and former President Bill Clinton when she implied during a Kentucky speech that he would exist placed in charge of the economy under her administration. The erstwhile secretary of state told the oversupply, "My husband, who I'm going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy, 'cause yous know he knows how to do it." Clinton quickly clarified that her husband would not have a chiffonier role in her administration.

xiv. Clinton got visibly irritated in February when responding to Ashley Williams, a 23-year-old Blackness Lives Matter activist who interrupted a private fundraiser for Clinton in Charleston. Williams was displaying a sign that read, "We demand to bring them to heel," a reference to a 1996 oral communication where Clinton also described gang members as "super-predators" post-obit the passage of her married man's highly controversial 1994 criminal offence bill. Every bit Williams continued to criticize Clinton for her past comments, the quondam showtime lady snapped, "Practice you want to hear the facts, or practise y'all just want to talk?"

15. Clinton's girl, Chelsea, landed herself in hot water when she criticized Sanders' healthcare proposal by telling a New Hampshire crowd, "Sen. Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare, dismantle the Fleck plan, dismantle Medicare, and dismantle private insurance." Politifact rated Chelsea's attack equally "mostly false," but Hillary Clinton chose to double-down on the criticism when she said at an Iowa campaign event, "I want y'all to understand why I am fighting so hard for the Affordable Care Deed. I don't desire it repealed. I don't desire us to exist thrown back into a terrible, terrible national debate."

16. Clinton sharply criticized Bernie Sanders for comments he made in a New York Daily News interview nearly his plan to break up big Wall Street banks.  During an appearance on MSNBC, Clinton said, "I think he hasn't done his homework, and he'd been talking for more than a year nigh doing things that he obviously hadn't actually studied or understood." Sanders slightly mischaracterized Clinton's criticism and responded responded a rally at Temple University, where he said, "And she has been proverb lately that she thinks that I am, 'not qualified to be president'… Well, allow me, let me only say in response to Secretary Clinton: I don't believe that she is qualified if she is… through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special interest funds."

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SEE ALSO:16 of Donald Trump's Most Controversial Statements

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