Clinton links Trump’s attacks on judge to his criticism of her emails

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Sunday linked presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s criticism of a judge hearing lawsuits against Trump University to his attacks against her over her private email server.

{mosads}During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Clinton dismissed Trump’s recent comments that she should go to jail over the use of a private email server while secretary of State.

“Well, it’s a typical Trumpism, and I don’t have any response. You know, when he attacks me, I am not going to respond,” she said.

“But I think it is in keeping with his very vicious public attack against the judge, the federal judge, who is hearing the case against so-called Trump University. A judge who has an impeccable record as a prosecutor, who actually spent, as I’m told, nearly a year in hiding because of threats from criminal drug cartels against his life, who was appointed first by the Republican governor of California, Gov. Schwarzenegger, then appointed by a Democratic president, President Obama, because of his extraordinary legal record.”

Clinton said Trump is trying to divert attention from “very serious fraud charges against Trump University that have basically been confirmed by some of the highest officials who worked with him.”

“So this is typical. He does have that thin skin and, you know, Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel is as American as I am and certainly as American as Donald Trump is. And Trump’s continuing ethnic slurs and rants against everyone, including a distinguished federal judge, I think, makes my point rather conclusively.”

Clinton said an inspector general’s report critical of her email practices “actually made it clear that the practice I used was used by other secretaries, other high-ranking State Department officials.”

She reiterated that it was a “mistake.”

“I have not been asked to come in for an interview,” she said when asked if she or her “agents” have been contacted by the FBI. “I’ve said I am more than willing since last August, and I would like to do that sooner instead of later and get this matter wrapped up and behind us.”