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Hillary Given 'Four Pinochios' for Lying on Fox News Sunday

<p>Hillary has really dug in her heels this time&comma; continuing to maintain that she has been 100&percnt; truthful with the public regarding the now-infamous Clinton email scandal&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;And as the FBI said&comma; everything that I&rsquo&semi;ve said publicly has been consistent and truthful with what I&rsquo&semi;ve told &lbrack;the FBI&rsqb;&comma;&rdquo&semi; she said on Wednesday&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Clinton&nbsp&semi;cited FBI Director James Comey in her defense this Sunday when <em>Fox News<&sol;em> host Chris Wallace challenged her regarding the claim that she never sent or received classified material using her homebrew server&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Clinton <strong>disagreed<&sol;strong> when Wallace reminded her that Comey had stated those things were not true&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;That&rsquo&semi;s not what I heard Director Comey say&hellip&semi;Director Comey said that my answers were truthful and what I&rsquo&semi;ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people&comma; that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is a blatant lie&period;&nbsp&semi;While Comey did say that &ldquo&semi;we have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI&comma;&rdquo&semi; he made no mention of her public statements&period; <strong>In fact&comma; Comey has stated &ldquo&semi;there was classified material emailed&period;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hillary&&num;8217&semi;s statements have been torn apart by independent fact-checkers like <em>Washington Post&rsquo&semi;s<&sol;em> Glenn Kessler&comma; who has awarded the Democratic nominee &ldquo&semi;four Pinnochios&rdquo&semi; and chided her for reiterating the &ldquo&semi;roundly debunked&rdquo&semi; claim&period;&nbsp&semi;Clinton also earned a &ldquo&semi;Pants on Fire&rdquo&semi; rating for her lack of truthfulness from PolitiFact&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;While Comey did say there was no evidence she lied to the FBI&comma; that is not the same as saying she told the truth to the American public &ndash&semi; which was the point of Wallace&rsquo&semi;s question&period; Comey has repeatedly not taken a stand on her public statements&comma;&rdquo&semi; reports the <em>Washington&nbsp&semi;Post&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Clinton is cherry-picking statements by Comey to preserve her narrative about the unusual setup of a private email server&period; This allows her to skate past the more disturbing findings of the FBI investigation&comma;&rdquo&semi; concludes the&nbsp&semi;<em>Post<&sol;em>&comma;&nbsp&semi;noting that Hillary was relying on Comey&rsquo&semi;s statement&colon; &ldquo&semi;We have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI&period;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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