If Hillary Clinton really wanted the public to see her emails, she’d be showing them instead of evading the question, and her “latest public relations trick” should be viewed with skepticism, National Journal senior political columnist Ron Fournier said in a condemning opinion piece Thursday.
“If she wants to be transparent, she’d be transparent,” Fournier said. “If she wants to be a modern, forward-looking leader who earns the trust of a disillusioned public, she’d call off her attack dogs, stop spinning, and do the right thing.”
Her only statement so far was her Wednesday night short tweet, in which she said that she wants “the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They [the State Department] said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”
That tweet isn’t enough, said Fournier, who commented that a “cornered Clinton is a craven Clinton,” and he wants to know why, if Clinton wants her emails public, she made a secret account “on a dark server registered at her home? … why didn’t she give State all of her email rather than a self-censored fraction of the correspondence?”