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US Presidential Election Series: President Obama dragged into Clinton email scandal

President Barrack Obama got dragged into the scandal of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email server. Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump said at a rally that the President knew all about her email server arrangements, despite his claims that he came to know about it from the news. He said, “That’s why he stuck up for Hillary because he didn’t want to be dragged in. Because he knew all about her private server”. He added, “This means he has to be investigated”. In a March 2015 interview, President Obama said that he learned about the server at the same time everybody else learned it.

However, the latest release of Wikileaks emails of Clinton campaign manager John Podesta shows that the President’s claims unlikely to be true. After President Obama’s remarks on March 7th, Mr. Obama’s spokesman tried to clarify the President’s remarks two days later, by saying that Mr. President has interacted through Mrs. Clinton’s private server but had no idea that the emails could be a problem as he relied on Mrs. Clinton to make sure that using a private account did not break any laws. He tried to assert that the president was aware of the email addresses to be private but wasn’t aware of the legality or security of it.

Here is the link to the Wikileaks email, https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/31077 . It shows, Hillary Clinton’s top aide Cheryl mills saying with regard to President Obama assertion that he didn’t know about the emails – “we need to clean this up - he has emails from her - they do not say

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If Donald Trump becomes President and keeps his vow to clean up the swamp in the Washington D.C, it would be no less than a civil war as big names are involved in this.

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