True: Clinton's team destroyed emails on the server False: the process didn't leverage "acid wash", but something called BleachBit
Or something to that effect. Not a Snopes writer.
To give a recurring example, this is like the debate on gun control and when someone says "automatic weapons" or "assault rifles" and the other party attempts to shut it down there. That is what the tweet effectively attempts to do (countering the intent of the message by discrediting verbiage).
To make an analogy to gun control, imagine if a prominent person said that the Parkland attacker constructed the bomb he used to kill all those kids with a rare explosive that can only be obtained from the government of Ecuador, and implied there was something funny going on. Should we avoid calling this “false” because he did actually kill a bunch of kids?
He literally said they used chemicals. Are we supposed to call this “true” just because some emails were in fact deleted?
I’m not ignoring your supposed underlying point, I just disagree with it. The statement was clearly false. That there’s some truth to the general idea if you strip away the wrapping of confusion and lies doesn’t make the statement itself true.