US press lashes Hillary Clinton over deleted emails
One day after Hillary Clinton first spoke publicly about her use of a personal email account, the former US secretary of state cannot escape the headlines. Clinton, a probable contender to be the Democrat presidential candidate in 2016, admitted to deleting half of her emails before handing the rest over to the government for release. She says the deleted emails were entirely private. The US press and Republicans won’t let this story go away.
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One story, one 20-minute press conference at the United Nations and many different versions of it in the American press.
In the media, Hillary Clinton isn’t getting away lightly. The Washington Post leads with the headline “Clinton aims to quiet uproar” but political reporter Dan Balz says her tactics were simply to ask the American people to trust her.
“Does she have something to hide?” asks The Washington Post, the same question Republicans want to keep in the news all the way to the presidential election in 2016.
The Washington Times - same city, different political point of view - decided to concentrate on Clinton’s admission that she deleted 32,000 private emails, the main reason why this story will run and run.
In its analysis of what at times seemed like an awkward start to a presidential campaign, The New York Times says Clinton came up with “increasingly defensive responses”. Most people agree, her first public statements on the email controversy did not go well.
The Wall Street Journal leads with Clinton’s regrets that she decided to keep her private email account during her time as secretary of state.
Last but not least, the tabloid New York Post goes for the inevitable pun on its front page. "The Deleter of the Free World". Indeed, Hillary Clinton wants to be the leader but for now she is very much on the defensive.
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