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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Is Hillary Really Losing the Washington Post?

There are few more loyal liberal Democrat pundits than Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post.  That's why his latest column is of major importance.  Cillizza points out that the latest emails from Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state make her story on that subject nearly impossible to believe.  Cillizza properly points out that the fact that nearly 200 new work emails were uncovered in the records of other people that Hillary Clinton never turned over is problematic.  In other words, Clinton's story about how she carefully turned over all of her work related emails is obviously untrue.  After all, we now know that she "missed" (more likely omitted) at least 200 that she did not want to see the light of day.  Cillizza also points out that one of the new emails makes clear that when she took office, Hillary worried that she needed to keep control of her records and directed her staff to get a handle on just how that could be done.  That email delivers a death blow to Hillary's original claim that she only had a personal email server for "convenience".  In many way that "convenience" argument reminds one of the Church Lady on Saturday Night Live who used to mock the veracity of someone's statement by saying, "How convenient!"

There's more from Cillizza, but here's how he finishes his piece:

But revelations like Monday's — a chunk of previously undisclosed emails that are clearly professional in nature — lend further doubt to the story Clinton had told about why she set up a private server and how she handled it after leaving office. For a candidate already struggling to convince voters she is honest and trustworthy enough to be president, stories like this one are deeply problematic.

It sure sounds like Hillary is losing the Washington Post on this story.  What's next?  Will Bill Clinton question her story?

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