If Hillary Clinton’s e-mail instructing a staffer to delete a classified marking on a document and send it over an unsecured line is “innocent and routine,” as she argued yesterday, “why would you scrub the heading” in the first place, Charles Krauthammer asked tonight.
Responding to Special Report host Bret Baier saying Clinton expressed “denial” over the incident, Krauthammer commented, “I’m not sure I believe it’s denial; I think it’s worse, I think it’s cynicism.”
“Look at the logic of what she said,” he continued, critiquing the explanation she offered on yesterday’s Face the Nation.
Krauthammer's Take: Hillary's E-mail Excuse 'Worse than Denial,' 'It's Cynicism'’I asked him to do this’ but she says it didn’t happen, well that’s irrelevant. ‘It wouldn’t have happened,’ well why wouldn’t it have happened? You asked him to do it. ‘It wouldn’t have happened because that’s not how I do things.’ But she just did it. That was the instruction she gave. And the other part is this is completely innocent and routine, why would you scrub the heading? It makes no sense. She knows it. She puts a smile on her face. She brazens her way through it. I have to admire her for that. But I think she knows this is a real vulnerability. In the end it’s about the legality of this and will there be a criminal referral. If there isn’t, her nomination is not in jeopardy.