Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Friday downplayed Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she held the post, calling it a “mistake” that never endangered anybody.
“The email issue — she said she made a mistake,” Albright said on CNN’s “New Day.” “Nobody is going to die as a result of anything that happened on emails.”
{mosads}Albright said she views presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions as a potentially much greater national security risk.
“He is erratic. He says crazy things. I travel abroad a lot, and our allies, they don’t think we’re weak. I have been in the Situation Room, and I know the temperament that is necessary,” she said.
“What you need to have is somebody who doesn’t think he knows everything but has people around who are different in their opinions, who is respectable of the peoples’ opinions, who listens, who makes considered judgments and understands the unintended consequences of foreign policy decisions.”
Albright, a Democrat who has endorsed Clinton for president, added she sees no reason to think Trump can improve.
“Donald Trump does not exhibit any iota of any one of those qualities, and it makes me nervous,” she said.
An internal watchdog report last week determined Clinton and her aides did not comply with State Department record-keeping policies.
The Office of the Inspector General said Clinton circumvented policies designed to follow federal records laws by using a personal email address routed through a private server.
The former secretary of State’s technology decision may also have jeopardized sensitive national intelligence, the report said.
Clinton has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the matter.
Trump last week called the watchdog report a “disaster” for Clinton, adding it shows “bad judgement” from the Democratic presidential front-runner.