Krauthammer’s Take: ‘Disclose Everything’

What’s the solution for Hillary Clinton’s email troubles? “Disclose everything,” says Charles Krauthammer.

“This whole thing is about non-disclosure,” said Krauthammer on Monday’s Special Report. “It’s about hiding e-mails. It’s about having your own server, so you have your own lawyers protecting it. It’s about having this money flow in from the outside world while she is secretary of state, and, now, knowing that she might be the president — which obviously is a kind of corruption.

Continued Krauthammer: “I think the damage here could be horrible if there is actually stuff in the e-mails. But imagine that there isn’t any. The damage is already done, precisely because it revives the memories of the Clintons in the ’90s — especially for Saturday Night Live, with a young audience, it’s telling them for the first time that this is who the Clintons are. Anybody who remembers the ’90s knows how they parsed and they skimmed and they reinterpreted words.

“It could be that it was illegal what she did, it could be that it wasn’t, or it was skirting the rules, or it wasn’t. The point is,” said Krauthammer, “it raises the question: Do you want to have this baggage around for the next four years or eight years? And that is where I think the damage is done: reminding people of how they conducted themselves in the past and telling them that, in that sense, they are utterly incorrigible.”