Critics, including opponent Donald Trump, are slamming former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for having received emails mentioning him on her controversial personal email server. The Clinton campaign fired back at GOP attacks on Monday, releasing a statement even before Trump's tweet accusing the GOP presidential nominee of using "increasingly desperate rhetoric to attack Hillary Clinton and make absurd accusations because they have no ideas for the American people." Story highlights Clinton received emails mentioning Amiri on her controversial personal email serverTrump and other Republicans have criticized Clinton's actionsWashington (CNN) The execution of an Iranian nuclear scientist accused of spying for the US is reverberating from Tehran to the presidential campaign trail. Trump took to Twitter on Monday to link Clinton to Shahram Amiri's death, writing, "Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton's hacked emails." The FBI has said there is no direct evidence the server was hacked, noting such evidence would be hard to come by.

Source: CNN August 08, 2016 23:37 UTC