Why doesn’t Hillary Clinton do a no-holds-barred, Chris Christie-style press conference to clear the air over her secret email accounts? “Because the answers to the questions, if remotely honest,” says Charles Krauthammer, “are self-indicting.”
“The reason that she can’t do a Christie, and do a two-hour press conference, where she clears the air,” Krauthammer explained on Thursday’s Special Report, “is — two reasons. Number one, she’s a Clinton, and what the Clintons do is never ‘clear the air’; they spend the first month or two [using] surrogates, the ‘machine,’ attacking the accusers, as in the Lewinsky scandal. And later, if you have to confess, if you are caught red-handed, you admit it.”
“The second reason,” Krauthammer continued, “is if she has such a press conference, she will be asked, ‘You turned over 55,000 e-mails. How many are left on your server?’ She will either say, ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I’ll get back to you,’ and then she is going to have to answer, ‘Why don’t you turn them over?’, to which there is no answer.”
“Of course, the answer,” said Krauthammer, “is ’Because I want to hide them, I want to sift them, I want to make sure the ones that are incriminating are kept back.’ She can’t do it because the answers to the questions, if remotely honest, are self-indicting.”
“In the mid 90s,” Krauthammer recalled, “William Safire, the dean of columnists of the New York Times, wrote a famous column, which was about Hillary, in which he called her a ‘congenital liar.’ He later sort of retracted that and said, no, it wasn’t genetic, it was acquired. But she was sort of an inveterate liar. This is not a new story, and that’s the reason why the Democrats are so dismayed.”
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