Hillary Clinton chalked up her email scandal to 'politics'

Hillary Clinton
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Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton brushed off the federal investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state as nothing more than "politics" on Friday, ABC News reports.

"You may have seen that I recently launched a Snapchat account," she joked to a crowd of more than 2,000 at a dinner for Iowa Democrats. "I love it. I love it. Those messages disappear all by themselves."

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.