Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[Mav]

Not surprising, really, as it's a 'process issue'.  Those issues are less important to most voters than substantive policies.  At its worst, foreign spies might have hacked the emails but that can't be proved even if it can't be excluded.  But Russia and China are pretty good at hacking into government computers anyway, so there's nothing to say the emails would have been safe anyway.  It may be that she was partly motivated by the desire to use her mobile phone to process emails as she travelled and the government system was cumbersome.  Many suspect it was to avoid FOI access to the emails, though she denies that (and as it turns out, they have been released anyway).  The greatest problem has been that she's done a Fonzie by trying to justify herself.  Those attempts have failed badly and she has just dug a hole for herself.  It looks, though, that she has finally learnt her lesson and she is giving an unqualified apology.  When questioned about Colin Powell's denial that he told her to use her private email before she had already started doing so, she said she took full responsibility for her error and she wasn't going to try to shift blame.  If she keeps on doing that, she'll stop feeding the story.  It will still erupt as a story from time to time but she won't exacerbate the negative impact on her credibility by being evasive.