Hillary’s Unlikely Vow
Hillary Clinton issued a remarkable promise Friday morning: No more shoes will fall in her e-mail mess or the Clinton Foundation scandals. Mika Brzezinski of “Morning Joe” asked her outright: “Are you certain there are no e-mails or foundation ties to foreign entities that will be revealed that could perhaps permanently impact your presidential prospects?”
Clinton replied, “I am sure, and I am sure because I have a very strong foundation of understanding about the foundation.”
She then followed with talk of what fine work the foundation does, that she never let it influence policy at the State Department and how the foundation went “above and beyond most of the charities” in disclosing donations and avoiding suspect ones.
It’s a pretty remarkable claim — since we in fact know that fresh bombs are set to keep dropping all the way to Election Day:
Some 14,900 e-mails that the FBI recovered in its investigation aren’t yet public — but a federal judge last week ordered the State Department to start releasing them by midSeptember. That’s half the 30,000 Clinton pre- sented in her supposedly complete handover of her work communications last year.
Judicial Watch may roll out from its ongoing search of e-mails uncovered by its Freedom of Information requests — including not just Clinton’s communications, but those of top aides, like Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin.
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange insists his outfit will be dropping more “significant” info before Election Day. The last wiki-dump forced Debbie Wasserman Schultz to quit as head of the Democratic Party — and Assange claims that what’s to come is much more Clinton-centered.
Since other watchdogs have their own investigations going, it’s an extremely safe bet we’ve got more scandal to come.
On the other hand, Clinton also insists that all the sleaze that’s dripped out to date — classified information repeatedly put at risk, unreported foreign donations to the foundation, State Department jobs for donors and so on — is all “smoke” with no fire.
In short, all she’s really promised is that, no matter what fresh horrors surface, she’ll keep on explaining it all away.