Abedin’s Key Clinton Email Claim Contradicted by Former Aide

Then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (R) waves in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City on April 11, 2016. Andrew Theodorakis/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—Former aide Justin Cooper said in a Judicial Watch deposition created on March 19 and made public on June 18 that he worked with Huma Abedin in 2009 to set up the unsecured private email account used by the former secretary of state to conduct official U.S. diplomatic business.

Cooper’s statement contradicts Abedin’s claim in a 2016 deposition by the non-profit government watchdog that she only learned about the private email setup in 2015 by “reading in some news articles about a year, a year-and-a-half ago, when it was—it was being publicly discussed.”