NYT’s Peter Baker: Email Scandal Does Cut at Hillary’s Credibility

‘It may not matter in the end, but it does sort of kind of bring down the sort of lofty place that she had been at one point’

BAKER: "Yes, I think what’s — what it does is it reminds people of some of the parts of the ‘90s that they didn’t particularly like about the Clinton era. And it — you know, she had done a very good job, I think, as secretary of state of sort of moving past that, of redefining herself as a — as a formidable figure on the world stage, as somebody who was credible to both parties in a lot of ways, and this kind of brings back some of the circus that always seemed to surround that last White House. And it does cut at — cut at credibility. The details kind of, you know, you saw with your interviews, I mean it would get pretty arcane at times, right, and it may not matter in the end, but it does sort of kind of bring down the sort of lofty place that she had been at one point —"

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