Hillary Clinton takes a dig at Donald Trump with ‘but her emails’ cap

Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took a jab at Donald Trump based on reports that he used to flush important papers down the toilet during his tenure as the US President.

“Just in time for Galentine’s Day, and the news that Trump was flushing documents down White House toilets…,” Clinton wrote as she posted an edited picture of herself wearing a cap that read “but her emails”. She added that her NGO ‘Onward Together’ will be selling it for $30 as part of its fundraising efforts.  

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The text on the hat is a reference to persistent attacks by Trump and other Republicans on Clinton’s use of a personal email server during her time as the secretary of state under Barack Obama’s government. In his 2016 campaign, the former president had repeatedly called the Clinton email probe ‘the biggest political scandal since Watergate’. 

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An FBI investigation revealed that Clinton’s handling of the classified information did not amount to criminal activity, but the then-FBI director James Comey did remark that she had been ‘extremely careless’, according to a CNN report. 

Clinton’s tweets follow a recent revelation by New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman that Trump would often tear up and flush down important documents and memos after reading them during his time as President. She made the allegations in her upcoming book titled ‘Confidence Man’.

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The National Archives has sought an investigation into Trump’s handling of the documents and to probe whether he violated the Presidential Records Act — under which the President is required to submit all records to the National Archives at the end of their tenure.

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Earlier, the NYT had reported that Donald Trump had allegedly taken with him classified documents when he left the White House early this year. Trump dismissed the claims and said on Thursday, “Following collaborative and respectful discussions, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) openly and willingly arranged with President Trump for the transport of boxes that contained letters, records, newspapers, magazines and various articles.”