So when they logged into the account to retrieve the old emails per a State Department request, the new email address, hrod17, appeared as the sender instead of hdr22.

They have said that hrod17 and hdr22 are the same account - just different email addresses. They said this contradicted a claim from Clinton’s lawyer, who wrote in a March letter to Gowdy that ' is not an address that existed during Secretary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.' That would be the 'lie' by Clinton referred to in the meme.īut Clinton’s lawyers and her campaign said this apparent oddity is easily explained. In May, Republicans and conservative media outlets said the hrod17 email, which she supposedly adopted in 2013, appeared on emails from 20. īut the meme’s claim goes well beyond this widely corroborated fact. While she was secretary, Clinton used the email address After leaving the department, she changed her email address to. 'She used a second personal email and lied about its existence.'Īs is now widely known, Clinton chose to forgo a government email account while serving as secretary of state, opting instead to use her own private email on a private server. We aren’t able to fact-check this claim because it’s vague, it’s largely an opinion and there’s no widely agreed-upon definition of 'for convenience.'Ĥ. 'She put our national security at risk ‘for convenience.’ ' Any past disagreements about the scope of her testimony appear to have been resolved. What has kept her from testifying so far are disagreements over scheduling and format - not over whether she would testify or not. Moreover, we found no evidence that Clinton has been opposed to testifying before the House panel that’s still studying the incident, chaired by Rep. This claim makes no sense, since Clinton has already testified twice, in public and on live television, about the Benghazi attack. 'She refuses to testify before Congress about what really happened at Benghazi where four Americans died.' So we rated the web ad’s statement True.Ģ.

At least a portion of those donations came in 2014, after Clinton left the State Department and formally joined the family’s foundation that had previously been in her husband’s name alone. This included between $1 million and $5 million from the United Arab Emirates and between $10 million and $25 million from Saudi Arabia. Over the years, the Clinton Foundation has taken millions of dollars - legally - from foreign governments. For example, a web ad by American Crossroads, a group founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, said that the Clintons' foundation 'took millions from foreign governments' including 'up to $5 million' from the United Arab Emirates and 'up to $25 million' from Saudi Arabia. Some claims have been phrased more accurately than the one in this anti-Clinton meme. But the meme is wrong to suggest that she personally took money from foreign governments while secretary of state. Some would argue that the donors’ motivations were to gain favor with a former president and his wife, at the time the secretary of state. The Clinton Foundation - which she was not affiliated with during her tenure as secretary of state - did accept money from foreign governments. 'She took money from foreign governments trying to buy influence.' Here we’ll look at the claims one by one.ġ. It goes on to list five reasons voters should oppose the former Secretary of State in her presidential bid. The meme is headlined 'I’m not ready for Hillary' - a takeoff on the PAC that supported Clinton during the months leading up to her official announcement.

A meme now circulating on social media makes a concise case against Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

Hillary clinton monopoly meme