GOP nominee Donald Trump, set to receive his first national security briefing this week, said Tuesday night he's worried about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton having access to similar intelligence information because of her email scandal.
"She can't keep anything private," Trump told Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt in an interview recorded before his town hall event in Milwaukee. "I think that she — and I really mean this, by the way — I think her email scandal is one of the worst things I've ever seen.
"She deleted 33,000 emails which is a crime. What she did is a crime, and to think that you have subpoenas and you're deleting emails. It's unthinkable."
Further, Trump said in the interview, airing on "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday, he believes Clinton's "single greatest achievement in her life will be getting out of that mess, and I don't think she's really out of it. I can't believe that she's out of it, but justice has to be ashamed."
Trump will be receiving a wide-ranging briefing on foreign policy and national security issues and current threats from representatives from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Neither he or Clinton will receive top-secret details about ongoing U.S. undercover spy operations or the identities of intelligence sources and methods, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Trump confirmed to Earhardt that retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a former Defense Intelligence Agency chief, will be included in the briefing. ABC News has also reported that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will also be included.
Trump said he is including Flynn because he's a "terrific guy, terrific general, tough, smart," and "feels like I do about illegal immigration in particular."
"He wants to make sure the right people are coming into our country, not the people that we're probably taking in right now," Trump said. "We don't even know who we're taking in. We have people coming into our country, we have no idea who they are, where they come from. He's somebody that I believe in."
However, he does not trust intelligence "so much from the people that have been doing it for our country. Look what's happened over the last 10 years. Look what's happened over the years. It's been catastrophic."
Trump also said he won't use many of the people who are "sort of your standards," because "they've made such bad decisions. Look at Iraq, the Middle East. It's a total powder keg. If we would have never touched it, it would have been better on top of which we spent probably $4 trillion.
"Nobody knows what we've spent. So, no, I have great people and Gen. Flynn is one of them."
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