On Monday’s Good Morning America Jon Karl fact-checked the two presidential candidates statements from Sunday night’s debate. In his first fact-check, he analyzed Trump’s comment calling out Clinton for deleting 33,000 e-mails and rated it as “mostly true,” while at the same time trying to defend Clinton’s actions as not as bad ast Trump made them out to be.
“No shortage of things to fact-check from that debate,” Karl began before introducing Trump’s “extraordinary accusation” about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails. During the debate Trump said:
TRUMP: There has never been anything like this. You get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 emails.
Karl rated this as “mostly true.” “Mostly” because she probably didn’t mean to, citing FBI director James Comey’s point that he didn’t find any “evil intent” to deleting the 33,000 e-mails after being subpoenaed. Karl even stumbled admitting that it was Hillary who deleted the e-mails, backtracking from saying “Hillary Clinton did--” to say, “33,000 of her e-mails were deleted.”
KARL: Well, we rated that mostly true. In fact, Hillary Clinton did or -- 33,000 of her e-mails were deleted just a week after she received a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating Benghazi. It's important to point out though that FBI director James Comey said he did not think there was any quote 'evil intent or intent to obstruct justice,' which appears to be what Donald Trump was suggesting.
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