Democrat Queen Hillary Lost Her Crown when She Erased Her Emails

Representative Trey Gowdy, the head of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, several days ago broke the news that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has erased all information from the personal email server she used while serving as the nation’s top diplomat. Gowdy said Friday : “We learned today from her attorney that Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server.” He said while it’s “not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department.” Gowdy received the news about Clinton erasing the server after he sent a letter to Clinton’s attorney asking that the email server be turned over to a third party in the hope that an investigation could recover about 30,000 emails that her team deleted before turning the rest over to the State Department. Gowdy said : "it is clear Congress will need to speak with the former Secretary about her email arrangement and the decision to permanently delete those emails. Not only was the Secretary the sole arbiter of what was a public record, she also summarily decided to delete all emails from her server, ensuring no one could check behind her analysis in the public interest.” ~~~~~ Today, Gowdy asked to speak to Mrs. Clinton, requesting her to appear for a private interview about her exclusive use of the personal email account when she was Secretary of State. Gowdy noted that Mrs. Clinton’s “email arrangement with herself is highly unusual, if not unprecedented." He added that Clinton’s disclosure last week that all of the emails from the personal account had been deleted “only exacerbates our need to better understand what the Secretary did, when she did it, and why she did it." ~~~~~ Hillary Clinton has maintained that the deleted messages were personal in nature, but Gowdy and others have raised questions over whether she might have deleted those messages that could damage her expected White House run. Clinton said at an early March press conference : “I have absolute confidence that everything that could be in any way connected to work is now in the possession of the State Department." She said she had searched through more than 60,000 emails from her time at State and determined that roughly 30,000 of them were public records that should have been maintained. Clinton said the rest were messages related to private matters, such as her daughter’s wedding or her yoga class schedule, and didn't need to be kept. Gowdy's view is that, given Clinton’s “unprecedented email arrangement with herself and her decision nearly two years after she left office" to permanently delete information, his panel would need to talk with her and then to work with House leadership as it “considers next steps.” There were reports earlier this month that House Speaker John Boehner would announce an investigation into Clinton's use of a private email account, but that has yet to happen. Meanwhile, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz has suggested his panel could hold hearings over Clinton's use of private email, emphasizing his committee's jurisdiction over violations of the Federal Records Act. ~~~~~ The Obama White House was not overwhelmingly supportive of Mrs. Clinton's situation. Today, Obama Press Secretary Josh Earnest reacted to the news that Chairman Gowdy has requested an interview with former Secretary of State Clinton to review the use of her private email address and her home server by saying that the issue was now in the hands of Clinton and her lawyers as well as the leaders of the congressional committee. Earnest said : “I don’t have an opinion on it.” Earnest then reminded them that the former Secretary of State was acting as a “private citizen” now : “Ultimately if the committee makes a request and Secretary Clinton in her capacity as a private citizen decides that she wants to once again go above and beyond in terms of trying to provide them with information and access, then that would be a decision for her to make." He confirmed that the White House believed it had “done enough” to clarify the nature of her communication. ~~~~~ And, the negative news that has filled the "Hillary Clinton space" for a month has had an impact on her polls. Voters in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania question Clinton's trustworthiness and honesty, according to a new Quinnipiac University survey taken after the controversy surrounding Clinton’s use of a private email server for government communications. Her favorability ratings are down in all three states, where Clinton’s previous leads have shrunk. In the key delegate state of Florida, former Governor Jeb Bush leads Clinton, 45% to 42%. Clinton edges Senator Marco Rubio, 46% to 44%, and leads Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, considered another early frontrunner, 46% to 40%. Pennsylvania, a key state that has been elusive for Republicans recently, could be competitive for the GOP this cycle, with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul narrowly topping Clinton 45% to 44%. Clinton beats Bush by six percentage points, Walker by five and Rubio by four in the Keystone State : “A red flag in blue state Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton, seemingly invincible before the email scandal, ends up tied with Rand Paul,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, in a press release. Clinton seems to do better in Ohio at this early stage of the campaign, although her margins are smaller than they were last month. In the closest matchup there, Clinton leads Paul, 46% to 41%. She tops Walker by 11 points in Ohio and leads Bush and Rubio by nine points. But Peter Brown, an assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll, says the Hillary Clinton team has “something to worry about : 36% of independent voters in the key state of Ohio say they are less likely to vote for her because of the email controversy." ~~~~~ Dear readers, we all know that in American politics, a week is a lifetime. It was not possible for Hillary Clinton to be crowned 2016 Candidate-in-Chief. In the days before Barack Obama's dismal performance made anybody else standing look like a star, Hillary had favorability ratings around 50% -- and the 50% who disliked her were very vociferous. That seems to be where we are headed again. And that makes Hillary a human being once more. No pedestal. No crown. Only those nagging suspicions that she is a less than truthful woman drunk on power and ready to do whatever it takes to gain it. Even create and then erase a questionable email server. The act of a questionable wannabe candidate.