Hillary Clinton Says She Has Nothing To Hide After Deleting 30,000 Emails

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Hillary "I'm Not Running For President Maybe We'll See IDK I'm Just An Innocent Grandma" Clinton was in town today to address the United Nations on women's issues. But since there's been some controversy over her decision to use her personal email address to conduct government business during her time as Secretary of State—not to mention the 30,000 personal emails she's reportedly tossed in the Internet trash—Clinton ended up addressing #EmailGhazi to a room full of rabid reporters this afternoon, announcing she used one email address "as a matter of convenience" and maintaining that didn't violate any standing laws at the time.

"I fully complied with every rule," Clinton told the packed Security Council Chamber today, speaking with the air of someone who just doesn't have time for this shit. The former Secretary of State added that she believed using one phone instead of two "would be simpler," though she conceded that "looking back, it probably would have been smarter to use two devices."

Clinton claimed that the majority of her work correspondence was with people who had government email addresses that would be captured by the State Department anyway, and that no classified information was transmitted via email. She reiterated that she handed the State Department any emails that could be federal record, but maintained that her private emails would remain private. "No one wants their personal emails made public and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy," she said. "At the end, I chose not to keep my private personal emails—emails about planning Chelsea's wedding or my mother's funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes."

It does seem weird that Clinton deleted 30,000 personal emails—perhaps she has strong feelings about Angelina Jolie?—and there's no question that the media will dog her about this for a while. For now, the State Department has over 50,000 pages worth of correspondence, and officials say they'll release them to the public in the near future, though sadly those potentially helpful yoga tips will never come to light. "The server contains personal communications from my husband and me, and I believe I have met all of my responsibilities and the server will remain private and I think that the State Department will be able, over time, to release all of the records that were provided," she said. Then again, doesn't the NSA have all those emails anyway?

Meanwhile, a recent Pew report found only 16 percent of Democrats cared about Hillary's allegedly shady email shenanigans. Even Republicans seemed primarily uninterested, with only 34 percent following the media chase, though some are a little more invested than others:

Then again, that guy once told the American public that the government knew "for a fact" that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Truthiness is as truthiness does.