Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday night that she should have fired a top aide in her 2008 presidential campaign accused of sexual harassment.

“I very much understand the question I’m being asked as to why I let an employee on my 2008 campaign keep his job despite his inappropriate workplace behavior,” Mrs. Clinton said in a statement on Facebook. “The short answer is this: If I had it to do again, I wouldn’t.”

Mrs. Clinton’s expression of regret over the way she handled the allegations against the aide, Burns Strider, came less than a week after it was first reported that she had overruled a recommendation from two campaign advisers that he be dismissed. The report of her actions has touched off an extended debate on the responsibilities of the most prominent woman in American politics when confronted with sexual harassment.

She posted the lengthy statement about 15 minutes before President Trump entered the House chamber to deliver his first State of the Union address.