I think I can predict this with some confidence.
If Hillary Rodham Clinton’s e-mail controversy doesn’t result in a federal indictment, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee won’t get a moment’s reprieve from her critics.
The FBI is examining whether Clinton violated any laws when she used her personal e-mail server while she was secretary of state. An indictment would have to come from a federal grand jury on the recommendation of the FBI prosecutors.
There’s that problem, of course, with former President Bill Clinton’s impromptu meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch the other day in Phoenix. Clinton should have stayed away; Lynch should have shooed him off her plane. Why? The investigation looms as a serious problem for the ex-president’s wife — and he should have known better than to go anywhere near the AG, who oversees the FBI.
Hillary Clinton’s headaches won’t end if the FBI decides there’s nothing for which to indict her.
But the way I look at it now, she’s been through enough hell already from those who hate her that she’s likely immune from too much further damage.
Heck, she’s been hectored and harassed since before her husband ran for president in 1992. She’s been examined, grilled and persecuted ever since.
And spare me the canard that the media have been soft on her.
If only the candidate’s husband had stayed away from the attorney general. But he didn’t.
It’s up now to the career prosecutors and investigators at the FBI to do their job. I have confidence they’ll do what they have to do.
I realize the futility of this request, but I’ll make it anyway: Whatever their conclusions, how about we just accept them and move on?