Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the Inspector General report slamming her use of a private email server was a vindication of sorts, adding the rules on such practices "were not clarified until after I had left."

In an interview televised on MSNBC, a campaign pool reporter cited likely general election rival Donald Trump's attacks against Clinton over the server.

"He kept saying this was not good," the reporter said. "He called you Crooked Hillary repeatedly. What do you say to that?"

"Well, I think the report is consistent with what I have been saying," Clinton said. "That the use of personal email was a practice by other secretaries of state, and the rules were not clarified until after I had left, and as I've said many times, if I could do it over again, I would have done it differently. But I think it's all out there. Everything that has been reported is in line with what was found in that report."

The IG report that came out Wednesday was scathing, contradicting Clinton's claims that her practice was permitted and criticizing her for not complying with federal records-keeping regulations.

The Washington Free Beacon reports: