Illavarslande för Hillary Clinton

The Clintons come from the Frank Underwood school of politics. What unites Bill’s roguish charm and Hillary’s relentless determination is an eye for the main chance, with adherence to the rules optional.

Det skriver  Rich Lowry i en vass kommentar till den senaste tidens uppmärksamhet kring Bill och Hillary.

I National Journal skriver  Ron Fournier om herrskapet Clintons affärer i något mildare tongångar. Han börjar med att ”bekänna” detta: I’ve known and respected the Clintons since the 1980s, when I covered state politics for the Arkansas Democrat.

Men sedan:

Under fire, Bill Clinton said his namesake charity has ”done a lot more good than harm”—hardly a ringing endorsement. One of his longest-serving advisers, a person who had worked directly for the foundation, told me the ”longtime whispers of pay-to-play are going to become shouts.”

This person, a Clinton loyalist and credible source, has no evidence of wrongdoing but said the media’s suspicions are warranted. ”The emails are a related but secondary scandal,” the source said. ”Follow the foundation money.”

Is the foundation clean? Is it corrupt? Or is the truth in the muddy middle, where we so often find the Clintons? Due to the fact that Hillary Clinton chose to skirt federal regulations and house her State Department emails on an off-the-books server, even the most loyal Democrat can’t honestly answer those questions without an independent vetting of her electronic correspondence.

National Journal

Följ pengarna hette det en gång på Nixons tid och jämförelsen med Nixon börjar nu dyka upp i de amerikanska kommentarerna kring Hillary Clinton. Det är ett illavarslande tecken för henne.