Sarah Palin mocks Hillary Clinton’s ‘convenience’ excuse in email controversy

Sarah Palin has little sympathy for Hillary Clinton amid the recent email controversy.

The Alaskan politician shared two images on her Facebook page midday Wednesday, juxtaposing her cellphone use with Clinton’s.

One picture shows a photo of Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state using a single cellphone, captioned with her rationale for using her private email for professional matters.

“I opted for convenience … because I thought it would be easier to carry one device,” it reads.

The other photo shows Palin with a personal cellphone in one hand and a baby in the other — showing a  work cellphone labeled “State of Alaska” resting on the table in front of her.

Palin also criticized Clinton in an article published on Fox News Monday for using a private, nongovernmental email address to conduct her work as a public servant.

“That’s unethical, no doubt illegal, and flies in the face of all claims of transparency. Hillary Clinton and her staff weren’t trying to be in compliance with the law; they were skirting it altogether,” Palin wrote.

The former GOP vice presidential nominee says that Clinton’s use of a private email server, which is reportedly run out of her house in Chappaqua, N.Y., made a mockery of transparency.

Palin recalled how she was bombarded with Freedom of Information Act requests after returning home from the 2008 presidential campaign.

But Palin says she gave investigators and the attorney general’s office access to all of her professional and private emails, aside from a few that were protected by attorney-client privilege.

“An honest politician has nothing to fear from the public seeing her emails. I know this. Eventually, all but those few redacted emails of mine were released to the public and remain online to this day for anyone to read at any time,” she said.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has also been vocally critical of Clinton’s use of a nongovernmental email address for professional business.

Earlier Wednesday, Paul told the “Today” show that Clinton’s desire for the convenience of a single email address on a single cellphone should not have trumped concerns of national security.

Adrienne Elrod, the communications director for Correct The Record, an organization dedicated to electing a Democrat as president in 2016, released a statement that day arguing that Clinton has been “open and fully transparent.”

“Americans know they can’t trust Rand Paul’s record of extremism and flip-flopping,” she said. “This partisan trolling is just another example of how Republicans continue to ignore the real issues, while Hillary Clinton has offered solutions to bring greater opportunity to women, children, and their families.”