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I found this article[0] which quotes her saying: > If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president In reference to WikiLeaks making her priv

by skohan 5y ago

I found this article[0] which quotes her saying: > If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president In reference to WikiLeaks making her private emails available. I will grant you this is not exactly the same as claiming the results of the election were not legitimate. But it does seem to directly blame foreign interference for her loss. To me the question of foreign interference is way less important than the question of why this election was even close, or indeed why Trump even made it as far as the nomination. [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-blames-russian-hackers-and-comey-for-2016-election-loss/2017/05/02/e62fef72-2f60-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-blam...

Wowfunhappy 5y ago
> I will grant you this is not exactly the same as claiming the results of the election were not legitimate. But it does seem to directly blame foreign interference for her loss. But I think that's a very important distinction! If a foreign power attempts to influence our elections through underhanded means, the US should retaliate diplomatically, regardless of who won. Note, that doesn't mean the winner should be called into question. > To me the question of foreign interference is way less important than the question of why this election was even close, or indeed why Trump even made it as far as the nomination. I think they're both important. I also think that foreign interference is one part (key word) of the answer.
- skohan 5y ago
  A robust democracy would not be so vulnerable that one of the candidates' actual private emails being made public would not swing the election. We live in an adversarial world, and America will always have enemies. If we are so fragile that a 3rd rate hack can get a tin-pot dictator elected, the fragility is the problem, not the attack itself.
ModernMech 5y ago
> In reference to WikiLeaks making her private emails available. Oct 28 was the day FBI Director James Comey made his announcement that the FBI had reopened its probe into the Clinton campaign based on a laptop it received. It quickly determined all of the e-mails were duplicates of ones they had already seen, and reversed course, but the damage was done. I think she's really saying that was the proximal cause, and I agree with that assessment. DNC hacked e-mails were released on Oct 7, the same day that the Washington Post published the Trump Access Hollywood tape. She blames both, but I think everyone pretty much realizes that the FBI director tanked her chances hard with that move.

by skohan 5y ago

Wowfunhappy 5y ago

> I will grant you this is not exactly the same as claiming the results of the election were not legitimate. But it does seem to directly blame foreign interference for her loss. But I think that's a very important distinction! If a foreign power attempts to influence our elections through underhanded means, the US should retaliate diplomatically, regardless of who won. Note, that doesn't mean the winner should be called into question. > To me the question of foreign interference is way less important than the question of why this election was even close, or indeed why Trump even made it as far as the nomination. I think they're both important. I also think that foreign interference is one part (key word) of the answer.

skohan 5y ago
A robust democracy would not be so vulnerable that one of the candidates' actual private emails being made public would not swing the election. We live in an adversarial world, and America will always have enemies. If we are so fragile that a 3rd rate hack can get a tin-pot dictator elected, the fragility is the problem, not the attack itself.

ModernMech 5y ago

> In reference to WikiLeaks making her private emails available. Oct 28 was the day FBI Director James Comey made his announcement that the FBI had reopened its probe into the Clinton campaign based on a laptop it received. It quickly determined all of the e-mails were duplicates of ones they had already seen, and reversed course, but the damage was done. I think she's really saying that was the proximal cause, and I agree with that assessment. DNC hacked e-mails were released on Oct 7, the same day that the Washington Post published the Trump Access Hollywood tape. She blames both, but I think everyone pretty much realizes that the FBI director tanked her chances hard with that move.