WELL, YES: Tim Carney on Hillary: A President We Simply Cannot Trust.
Nobody trusts Hillary Clinton. Neither Republicans nor Democrats trust her. Her oldest friends and her closest allies don’t trust her. And she has consistently earned that distrust by lying, changing her story, bending the rules, hiding her work, and stonewalling.
Only 11 percent of likely voters find her “honest and trustworthy,” a NBC News poll found over the summer. Less than one in four Democrats were willing to use that label for her.
Even Donald Trump is more trustworthy than Clinton, voters told the Washington Post. In a recent Post poll Trump won on the trustworthiness question by a 12-point margin. Trump this fall has consistently won that question by double-digit margins.
Her closest confidantes don’t trust her, hacked emails show. In September 2015, Hillary Clinton said at an Ohio campaign event. “You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center … I plead guilty.”
Five days later, Neera Tanden, a honcho in the Clinton campaign, emailed campaign chairman John Podesta asking, “Why did she call herself a moderate?” Podesta replied, “I pushed her on this on Sunday night. She claims she didn’t remember saying it. Not sure I believe her.”
If Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief and longtime top-aide readily assumes she lied to him about something that small, you have to wonder if she feels any fealty to the truth in any circumstances.
Oh, I don’t wonder.