“Think about it, she set it up in 2009, before becoming secretary of state. So she anticipated having exchanges that she would not want anyone to see. So we’ve been asking ourselves on this set for a year almost, what exactly didn’t she want people to see? Well, now we know,” Krauthammer said.
“As we speculated, the most plausible explanation was the rank corruption of the Clinton Foundation and its corrupt — I don’t know if it’s illegal, but corrupt relationship with the State Department,” he said.
“Her only defense as we saw earlier, the Democrats are saying, ‘Well, there was nothing she did … that was corrupted by donations.’ You can believe that if you want, but there’s a reason that people give donations in large amounts, and that’s to influence the outcome of decisions,” he said.
“So, this — we are getting unfolding to us exactly what she anticipated having to hide, and it is really dirty business,” he said.
Krauthammer had made similar comments in a National Review article, in which he delivered a scathing indictment of the Clinton Foundation.
“The foundation is a massive family enterprise disguised as a charity, an opaque and elaborate mechanism for sucking money from the rich and the tyrannous to be channeled to Clinton Inc.,” he wrote.
“Its purpose is to maintain the Clintons’ lifestyle (offices, travel, accommodations, etc.), secure profitable connections, produce favorable publicity, and reliably employ a vast entourage of retainers, ready to serve today and at the coming Clinton Restoration. Now we learn how the whole machine operated,” he added.
Krauthammer noted that “e-mails began dribbling out showing foundation officials contacting State Department counterparts to ask favors for foundation ‘friends.'”
He noted that the only thing saving the Clintons is the swamp of political culture in which Washington operates.
“Yes, it’s obvious that access and influence were sold. But no one has demonstrated definitively that the donors received something tangible of value — a pipeline, a permit, a waiver, a favorable regulatory ruling — in exchange,” he said.
“It’s not until a Rolex shows up on your wrist that you get indicted. Or you are found to have dangled a Senate appointment for cash. Then … you go to jail.”
