Pinocchio, Pinocchio, Pinocchio, Pinocchio

The Washington Post gave Hillary Clinton one of its dreaded "four-Pinocchio" ratings -- the worst score possible for truthfulness -- after Clinton told Fox News Sunday that the FBI defended her honesty in the classified email scandal that has plagued her presidential campaign for more than 16 months.

FBI director James Comey testified in a July 7 congressional hearing that multiple statements the Democratic presidential nominee made to the public were untrue.

Nevertheless Clinton told millions of Fox viewers that Comey "said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people."

As soon as the Post rating was published, Trump immediately tweeted "#CrookedHillary" with a link to the article.

Undermining Clinton's claim is also the fact that she was never placed under oath during hours of interviews with federal investigators.

Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday that it's all OK because Clinton remains apologetic about using a private system for her only email address while she was secretary of state. But he insisted she was blind to the fact that thousands of messages she sent and received contained state secrets.

"She said this was a mistake multiple times. She's apologized for it," Mook said.

"What Director Comey said was that he believes there was no basis for her to believe that the emails in question, that you're referring to, that she had any reason to believe they were classified at the time she got them."

Host Joe Scarborough shot back at Mook, saying Comey concluded "any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known" that an unsecured system was the wrong place to have sensitive conversations.