America
Trump attacks Hillary's Indian American aide on email saga
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By Arun Kumar Washington, Aug 29
As an email controversy
continued to dog Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump accused her top aide of
spilling classified secrets to her notorious husband, Anthony Weiner,
whom he called a "perv" and a "sleazebag".
"Huma Abedin is
married to a bad guy. Anthony Weiner is one of great sleazebags of our
time," the Republican front-runner said in reference to Clinton's top
Indian American aide at a rally in Norwood Massachusetts Friday.
"So
Huma is getting classified secrets, she's married to Anthony Weiner,
who's a perv," he said referring to an online love affair and sexting
scandal that led Weiner to quit as a House member in 2011.
"I
know Anthony Weiner for a long time," Trump said. "I knew before they
caught him with the bing bing bing, and he was a bad guy then. It turns
out he was a really bad guy."
Alleging that Clinton had misused
her private email server as secretary of state, Trump said disgraced
former CIA Director David Petraeus had paid a much higher price for a
far lesser crime.
"His life was destroyed for two percent of what Hillary did," the real estate mogul said of the retired four-star general.
Petraeus
was sentenced to two years' probation and fined $100,000 after
providing classified information to his mistress and biographer.
A
Clinton spokesman said of Trump: "He should be ashamed of himself, and
others in his own party should take a moment to stand up to him and
draw the line for once. It's embarrassing to watch frankly."
Meanwhile,
Clinton was also grilled about the email controversy at a news
conference at the Democratic National Committee meeting in Minneapolis
on Friday.
She again insisted that she didn't send or receive any
information that was marked classified at the time, even though some
messages were retroactively classified before released publicly.
"It
is complicated," she said. "It's a little confusing - and I certainly
understand why - for the press and for the public to try and make sense
of this."
Clinton also admitted some of the paid speeches that
former president Bill Clinton asked the State Department about were
"unusual requests" but defended the process used to vet her husband's
speeches.
"There was some unusual requests, but they all went
through the process to try to make sure that the State Department
conducted its independent review," she said.
"He did neither of those speeches," Clinton noted, referring to requests involving North Korea and the Congo.
The
questions stemmed from an ABC News report that Bill Clinton sought
approval from White House staff for two speeches involving repressive
regimes - North Korea and the Congo.
Hillary Clinton noted Friday
that her husband travelled to North Korea in 2009 to secure the
release of two detained American journalists.
"President Obama sent my husband to North Korea to rescue the two journalists who had been captured," she said.
Clinton
was also asked about new emails sent while Huma Abedin worked as a
special government employee, which allowed her to work for four
different employers at once.
Clinton declined to answer that question, according to ABC.
The
newly-disclosed emails have prompted Senator Chuck Grassley,
Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to start an
inquiry with the State Department concerning the vetting process for
Bill Clinton's speeches.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at [email protected])