The speaking fees were paid to Bill after he left office. That’s how they’ll skate on that, unless there’s evidence in the emails that there was some quid-pro-quo from Hillary while she was SECSTATE.
Even if it doesn’t rise to the level of prosecution, the stench of corruption might be enough to keep her from becoming President.
Certainly it HELPS make the corruption case if there was a quid pro quo - but unless there is strict separation of Bill and Hill financially (yeah, right), this is a case, written right in the Constitution, where the appearance of impropriety is impropriety. The Constitution forbids acceptance of gifts and it forbids acceptance of “emoluments” - that is, salaries. It does not say, “unless the emolument can arguably be said to have been earned,” nor does it say, “gifts are OK if disbursed for noble purposes” as determined by the POTUS.” It says that to accept a gift or a stipend you have to have the approval of Congress.Even if you argue that the Congress somehow bought off on their grifting when it ratified her nomination to SoS, that decision could not bind succeeding Congresses, such as the one elected in 2010.
What the Clinton server does do, indubitably, is to function as a character reference in the Craig Livingstone affair. Somebody in the Clinton WH hired Craig Livingstone. Hillary had motive and opportunity - and now we have clear indication of her lack of compunction against doing the deed.
HILLARY HIRED CRAIG LIVINGSTONE. The Clintons do it wholesale. Then when they are criticized wholesale, their acolytes say, “It’s those mean Republicans again.”