Bill Clinton calls email scandal 'full-scale frontal assault' on Hillary

Bill and Hillary Clinton
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On Sunday, former President Bill Clinton criticized continuing discussion of his wife's use of a private email server as secretary of state.

"I think that there are lots of people who wanted there to be a race for different reasons," he said in an interview set to air Sunday on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. "And they thought the only way they could make it a race was a full-scale frontal assault on her."

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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.