How long before Hillary drops out?

Another day, another poll to rattle former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, found her on Tuesday trailing Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., by seven points in New Hampshire's first-in-the nation Democratic primary. It was the second poll to get such a result.

Why is this happening? Clinton's coronation as the Democratic nominee was once taken for granted. Some of it has to do with left-wing Democrats' justifiable sense that she is not one of them but, rather, an entitled millionaire who cuts an odd figure as a populist champion of the middle class.

Most of it is due to her lamentable but characteristic decision six years ago that she was above federal laws and regulations governing transparency and secrets. She has done many deeply questionable things over the decades and gotten away with them, but the decision she made as she entered the State Department in 2009 may prove to be her undoing.

Clinton set up a secret, private, unsecured email server in her own house and used it to conduct all State Department business. In the process, she not only thwarted Freedom of Information Act requests for her correspondence, but also exposed top secret classified information and sensitive conversations about America's high-level diplomacy as easy bait for minimally competent hackers.

Clinton has given Americans every reason not to trust her. This is the main reason she already trails comparatively unknown Republicans in states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio.

The newest poll showing Sanders' lead in New Hampshire actually predates the latest chapter in her tale of concealment and deception. Clinton's email problem became known in March. She asserted then that there was no classified information whatsoever on her server.

Months later, it was revealed there was classified information within her email account, including "top secret" information. At that point, she and her supporters tried to characterize her role as that of an unwitting "passive recipient" of such information.

Then this was also exposed as a lie. Recently released emails show that Clinton discussed sensitive enough matters by email that large and small sections of her conversations have been redacted in their publicly released versions and formally marked as classified to protect national secrets. Because of the sensitive topics she discussed, these emails are considered classified from their inception; the chronology of their formal classification is immaterial.

Even sensitive information from America's foreign allies was compromised by Clinton's recklessness. One email from the Clinton cache released in July pertained to then-British Foreign Secretary David Milliband's 2009 trip to Afghanistan. A five-page message from his aide was forwarded to Clinton's unsecured private email address by her longtime aide Huma Abedin. In its publicly released version, nearly every word of it is redacted and marked as classified until the year 2029.

Why is Clinton struggling? Because she broke the rules and then repeatedly offered false explanations and excuses. Is she electable? It should be easy to give a resounding "no" in answer to that question, but Democratic primary voters may not come to that conclusion in time.

Even so, there is also the possibility, as Vice President Joe Biden smells blood in the water and considers a presidential run, that Clinton herself will prefer a semi-dignified early exit from the race rather than a battle to the end and ignominious defeat.

The conniving Clintons are beholden to a lot of people expecting big payoffs w/ Hillary’s presidential pen:

<><> Clinton Foundation donors,

<><>groups bribing the Clintons w/ humongous honoraria,

<><> those who bribed Bill w/ multi-million dollar consultancies.....

<><> and all the insider business deals

<><> faithful Clinton insiders working the con for 2016 Hillary.

CLINTON CASH AUTHOR PETER SCHWEIZER OBSERVES:
Deleted Hillary Emails Probably Relate to shady ‘Clinton Cash’ Transactions:

At first glance, the Clinton’s astounding honoraria and humongous Foundation donations seem to provide the bulk of the couple’s income.

Bill’s honoraria increased dramatically-—earning some $50 million during Hillary’s four-year term as secretary of State....including an Irish scholarship fund, a Korean conglomerate, and, a Nigerian newspaper company......each of whom paid Clinton more than half a million dollars for a single speech.

The Wash/Post reports Hillary earned $11.7 million for 51 speeches since Jan 2014.....she pocketed an astonishing $625,000 for two speeches in one day!

I firmly believe the Clinton Foundation’s gigantic donor list, and their astonishing blizzard of speaking honoraria, are a smoke screen for their secret wealth——and the way they make billions sub rosa-—intertwining their vaunted “charity” work and public office.

The calculated Clintons have sought to branch out into other business activities......though little is known about the exact nature and financial worth of Bill and Hillary’s non-speech business interests.

Recent reports indicate the Clintons were party to multi-billion dollar Mideast arms deals....Kazakhstan uranium mines....and Haitian gold mines...oil deals....telecom businesses, financial powerhouses like Teneo, Goldman Sachs.....etc etc etc.

THE CON ARTIST CLINTONS GRABBED EVERYTHNG THAT WASNT NAILED DOWN-—Lucrative business interests were cunningly intertwined w/ the Foundation’s “do-good” activities....enabled by Hillary’s catbird seat at the State Dept.

At last count the Clintons apparently raised $2billion from their foundation activities and their political campaigns.....

.....does not include monies flowing in from the various lucrative business ventures, interest accrued, safe deposit boxes, real estate assets, passive income on which they pay no taxes, income from Chelsea’s hubby’s hedge fund, monies invested in Goldman Sachs, interest in financial powerhouse Teneo..... etc etc etc.......

They are worth a bundle.....accumulated in record time.

Legal action might involve (1) an FBI investigation, and, (2) the US DOJ-—both in the grip of Obama so political hijinks loom. (3) a congressional committee, with subpoena power.

Here’s a fourth option: a six-month investigation: indicated the Clintons diverted tens millions of dollars that they solicited for specific Foundation charitable purposes (that were found to have been diverted to the personal enrichment of themselves and their close associates).

THIS IS CONSIDERED MAIL FRAUD Raising money for a specific cause that was diverted elsewhere is considered mail fraud.

REPORT MAIL FRAUD HERE:
https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/filecomplaint.aspx

If the FBI, DOJ and IRS won’t shape up to nab the conniving Clintons, the US Postal Inspector has been known to lock-up many crooks for using similar scams.

If they are serious about asking Slow-Joe to run, they must know an indictment or worse is coming down (after all they helped initiate it), they are not just scrambling for a new candidate, they are scrambling to get her off the stage so they don't get their @$$es handed to them (even worse than they did the last 3 cycles) like the R's did after Nixon resigned. The blow-back is also what they are worried about IMHO.

The longer she lingers the more damage she does to the other candidate and or Obama's legacy. Remember what they did to get Kawame KilPatrick off the stage in Sept-Oct of 08'. They moved mountains, and did stuff that was illegal ( the loans from 4 heavy hitters ) because they didn't want him juxtaposed to Obama. Ironically he is as a corrupt in his own way.

They may have to pay her off to get her off the stage, maybe that is a pardon or a promise not to sentence...

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