“Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family personally paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private e-mail server she used while heading the agency, according to an official from Clinton’s presidential campaign. “
Which means that she DIDN’T pay the staffer herself. That it was done by a staffer paid by the government.
This is called trying to ‘get ahead’ of the issue. Denying before the accusation.
Exactly! It's probably a lie also.