{"id":297551,"date":"2017-03-04T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T10:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mike-pence-accused-of-staggering-hypocrisy-over-private-email-account\/"},"modified":"2017-03-04T11:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T10:11:05","slug":"mike-pence-accused-of-staggering-hypocrisy-over-private-email-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mike-pence-accused-of-staggering-hypocrisy-over-private-email-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pence accused of &#039;staggering hypocrisy&#039; over private email account"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Vice President Mike Pence has defended his use of a personal email account to conduct state business while he was Indiana&#8217;s governor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pence said Friday that &#8220;there&#8217;s no comparison&#8221; between his case and the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton during her US presidential election campaign for her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no comparison whatsoever,&#8221; Pence said following an event he did with US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan in Janesville, Wisconsin, when asked about whether his situation gave him any sympathy for the Democratic presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Pence, as well as his boss, President Donald Trump, fiercely criticized Clinton throughout the 2016 presidential campaign for her use of a private server and email account during her tenure as head of the US State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Pence communicated via his personal AOL account with top advisers on topics ranging from security gates at the governor&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/03\/04\/512931\/US-VP-Pence-email-account\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice President Mike Pence has defended his use of a personal email account to conduct state business while he was Indiana&#8217;s governor. Pence said Friday that &#8220;there&#8217;s no comparison&#8221; between his case and the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton during her US presidential election campaign for her use of a private email server while she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-297551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}