On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) stated that Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deleted her personal emails using BleachBit, so the emails were deleted “where even God can’t read them.” And that “When you’re using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see.”
He also stated that he has never seen a single email pertaining to the Clinton Foundation, “produced by the State Department that was sent by her. So, if she considered them to be personal, then we move into the facet where she and her lawyers had those emails deleted.”
Gowdy responded to Clinton’s comments that there’s “no fire” regarding the Clinton Foundation by saying, “No, it’s arson. It’s pyromania. It’s not smoke. Even listening to her talk about the Clinton Foundation, I couldn’t help but go back and remember the press conference she gave on her emails, Martha, where every single thing she said proved to be false. … When you are a habitual, serial liar, in this facet of life, it tends to make people not believe you in other facets of life.”
He added, “I hope somebody in your line of work will ask her, did you consider foundation emails to be personal or work-related? I have yet to see a single foundation email produced by the State Department that was sent by her. So, if she considered them to be personal, then we move into the facet where she and her lawyers had those emails deleted. And they didn’t just push the delete button, they had them deleted where even God can’t read them. They were using something called BleachBit. You don’t use BleachBit for yoga emails, or for bridesmaid’s emails. When you’re using BleachBit, it is something you really do not want the world to see.”
Gowdy later said that Clinton didn’t delete the emails she considered personal until a year and a half after she left the State Department.
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