They’re just setting up a narrative she didn’t know it was wrong to have her own server.
Exactly. The old "Plausible Deniability" tactic.
She knew that if they took the classes they couldn't use that tactic.
The classes are not to 'teach ethics', they are to eliminate the 'Plausible Deniability' by politicians when it comes to statements to the media or legal challenges.
I don’t see how “Plausible Deniability” could possibly be a defense. Anyone who is too stupid to know right from wrong without taking an ethics class is too stupid to be President.