WILL HILLARY BE #486725? – AT 11:44 A.M. ET:   The Hillary mess gets messier.  Each day the aura of scandal grows around Hillary Clinton, and we've started to see significant drops in her poll numbers, centered around her "trustworthiness."  Now there is talk that she may face serious legal problems, not just bad poll numbers.   From Fox:   

With a sitting Democratic senator recently indicted on federal bribery and corruption charges, top criminal defense lawyers in the nation’s capital say Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton could conceivably face similar scrutiny, amid mounting disclosures about the tangled finances of her family’s philanthropic foundation.

The new book “Clinton Cash” by Peter Schweizer, an investigative reporter affiliated with the right-leaning Hoover Institution, has unleashed a torrent of conflict-of-interest allegations relating to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s own conduct during her tenure, from 2009 to 2013, as secretary of state.

Particular scrutiny – by Fox News, the Washington Post, and the New York Times – has focused on why the State Department, under Clinton’s leadership, green-lighted a foreign transaction that enriched major donors to the foundation while placing an estimated 20 percent of America’s stockpile of uranium - the fissile material that can be used to make nuclear weapons -under the control of a Kremlin-backed Russian firm.

It was, moreover, shortly after the uranium deal went through that former President Bill Clinton nailed down a $500,000 fee for a speaking event in Moscow.

“There’s certainly smoke there,” said Caleb Burns, a partner at the Washington law firm Wiley Rein LLC, who has long experience handling financial and public integrity cases. “The question’s going to be whether or not she took any official action in exchange for those donations. If she did, I think there is going to be a high, high likelihood of additional scrutiny, either from Capitol Hill or from the Department of Justice itself.”

COMMENT:  The story of the Clintons is the story of the survival of the fibbest.  It is one scandal after another, always accompanied by the image of a couple who have profited mightily from their government "service."  And yet, the Democratic Party is not deterred.  Hey, when your point man on race is Al Sharpton, you're not exactly signalling high standards.

April 25, 2015