New Emails Merge Hillary’s Scandals

A new release of previously undisclosed Hillary Clinton emails has merged two previously separate Clinton scandals into one mega-storm of controversy that will dog the Democratic nominee for the remainder of the election.

Allegations of corruption between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department and Clinton’s use of a private email server were once two different scandals producing their own, separate headlines. The release of over 700 new emails Monday provided the most damning evidence to date of special access for Clinton Foundation donors at Hillary’s State Department.

“Jimmy, my emails are so boring … We’ve already released, I don’t know, 30,000-plus, so what’s a few more?”

Now that a federal judge has given the State Department up through next month to release nearly 15,000 more documents related to the investigation into Clinton’s private server, the Democratic nominee is in for a tidal wave of scrutiny.

And what does Clinton have to say about all this mounting drama? She offered a few thoughts during a Monday appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

“Jimmy, my emails are so boring,” Clinton told Kimmel. “And I’m embarrassed about that. They’re so boring. So we’ve already released, I don’t know, 30,000-plus, so what’s a few more?”

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But Clinton’s flippant treatment of the damning evidence contained within her emails will come back to haunt her. Although her presidential campaign received a boost following the Democratic National Convention in July, and despite her recent edge in the polls over Donald Trump, this election is nowhere near over.

“No issue better illustrates how corrupt my opponent is than her pay-for-play scandals as secretary of state,” Trump said during a Monday speech in Akron, Ohio. “I’ve become increasingly shocked by the vast scope of Hillary Clinton’s criminality. It’s criminality. Everybody knows it … Come Nov. 8, we are once again going to have a government that serves you and your family and your country, not the special interests, the donors and the lobbyists.”

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Clinton has a lot to answer for, what with her security-compromising email server, her questionable ties to the Clinton Foundation while serving as secretary of state, and even accusations from House GOP members that she lied under oath during the FBI’s investigation.

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When Judicial Watch published 725 pages of previously unreleased emails sent and received by Clinton’s server Monday, those correspondences showed that some Clinton Foundation donors received special and swift access to Clinton while she served as secretary of state. Clinton critics claim she illegally fundraised for the Clinton Foundation out of the State Department.

The new release also seems to prove the emails Clinton’s lawyers deleted from her private server and did not turn over to the State Department because they allegedly were “of a personal nature” were clearly work-related. The emails Clinton kept from the original inquiry could actually be the most damning.

“A fundamental question never answered in the course of a year that we’ve dealt with this email controversy was, among the 30,000-plus emails that Hillary Clinton destroyed because they were personal, as opposed to the ones she turned over that were work-related,” John Heilemann, the co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics, said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“I asked this question of the campaign on multiple occasions over the course of a year and never got an answer, we still don’t have an answer. Did she regard Foundation-related emails as personal or not? If it turns out the answer to that question is yes, there could be a lot of email that was destroyed but now may be recovered. Among these 15,000 emails, how many of them are Foundation-related if she and her lawyers deem those to be personal as opposed to work-related?”