Former President Bill Clinton drew laughter Wednesday when he said he didn’t use email because people often wrote “embarrassing things on email.”
“The only time I got on the Internet I did two emails and I ordered Christmas presents from a reservation,” Clinton said at a panel discussion at a Clinton Global Initiative event in Denver on Wednesday.
“Otherwise I’ve found people said embarrassing things on email,” he added. “I didn’t want to be one of them.”
{mosads}His comments were quickly publicized by the conservative America Rising PAC.
His wife, Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential frontrunner, attracted controversy after acknowledging in March that she used a private email server while serving as secretary of State.
She acknowledged in March to deleting more than 30,000 emails deemed personal from her in the Cabinet and turned over a similar number to the department for archiving.
“The server contains personal communications from my husband and me,” she told reporters in March.
But a spokesman for Bill Clinton said around that time that the former commander-in-chief had sent just two emails in his lifetime, both as president.
Hillary Clinton also joked about her private email server, suggesting during a fundraiser earlier this month it could have better repelled recent cyberattacks on White House servers.