Donald Trump on Thursday decided to follow Hillary Clinton’s lead and talk about his use of email, although he said his emails are so dull it wouldn’t be a problem to release them all to the public.
During an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump said he’d be willing to release his emails in full “tomorrow,” though he warned that they were nothing to write home about.
“They are, in theory, very secure,” Trump said when asked if private sector has an advantage over government contracting on email protection. “But, you know, honestly my emails are so boring. I would release them tomorrow. My emails are not exciting, and I’m not a big fan of the email stuff.”
“I think there’s a great lack of security with computers, I’ll tell you,” Trump continued. “I assume that, and it’s totally illegal for people to do things about it, but I assume that when I send out emails, which are very seldom, frankly. I’m not a big believer. I like to do that as little as possible. But I assume that they’re being looked at by other people.”
Trump’s comments came while Clinton sat before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which discussed the emails between her and Sidney Blumenthal among other things. The GOP front-runner admitted that he only watched about five minutes of the testimony before running off to meetings.
Trump also offered up his reaction to the new Quinnipiac poll showing Trump trailing Dr. Ben Carson by eight percent, 28 percent-20 percent, in Iowa. The real estate tycoon told Hewitt that he was “very, very surprised” by the poll, adding that he’s not sure if he agrees with it.
“I was very surprised to see it,” Trump said, adding that he was in Iowa at a “packed” event Wednesday. “I was very, very surprised to see it because I think we’re doing well in Iowa. I have a feeling we’re doing much better in Iowa than the polls are showing, if you want to know the truth.”
“I was very surprised. I saw the poll. I was leading in Iowa, and not by a huge amount, but I was leading in Iowa, and I was very surprised to see that I wasn’t,” Trump said. “That’s the only one I’ve had that I’ve not been leading.”
The real estate mogul went on to tout a new Massachusetts poll that has him leading the GOP field with 48 percent.
“It’s fine, but I was really surprised to see [the Iowa poll],” said Trump, who continues to lead in the Washington Examiner’s latest power rankings. “I’m not sure I agree with it, and we’ll see what happens.”
