Even though Democrat Hillary Clinton continues to lead Republican Donald Trump in nearly all major public polls, the answer to one question in the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll had to trigger panic attacks throughout the entire Clinton campaign. Respondents were asked whether Trump or Clinton “would be better” on “being honest and straightforward.” Trump, a man not widely recognized as an ethical giant, was the choice of 41 percent of voters, whereas a meager 25 percent of voters on the central issue of integrity preferred Clinton.
Thus, even before FBI Director James Comey declared that as secretary of state, Clinton — through her unauthorized use of private homebrew email servers — and her colleagues “were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” the Democratic nominee-in-waiting was already overdrawn in her underfunded public trust account.
Here are some things we can take away from the ordeal: CONT.
Mark Shields