Syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer made his almost-daily appearance on the “All Star Panel” during Thursday’s Special Report and compared Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to businesswoman-turned-convict Martha Stewart in light of her e-mail server and Clinton Foundation scandals.
“Look, right now, what it looks like is she's got a Martha Stewart problem, which is the false information, misleading or her aides or pressuring somebody, that's a pretty big category,” explained Krauthammer.
Krauthammer expanded on this point by mentioning that the problems facing Clinton “includes destroying information” and specifically how “she destroyed 30,000 emails and we have to assume that there was nothing in there that might have affected this case.”
Dubbing it “a pretty tall assumption,” Krauthammer also vocalized his belief that Clinton also “has a David Petraeus problem, which is the mishandling of classified information.”
As for the FBI investigation, the FN contributor laid out the pathways forward and possible conclusions (with an allusion to her past as a congressional staffer on the Watergate Committee):
These are real serious and I do think the FBI seems to be showing at least when you listen to the head of the FBI that they are not going to be deterred by political pressure. Now, in the end, it could turn out that the political appointees will not allow an indictment to go ahead, but if it happens and whoever is leaking this stuff is going to leak about what was suppressed, there will be resignations, it will like the Saturday night massacre that she knows about. She was there in the Watergate days, on the other side and it will be devastating for her.
The relevant portion of the transcript from FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier on November 12 can be found below.
FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier
November 12, 2015
6:53 p.m. EasternBRET BAIER: Yeah, Charles, I mean, we’re dealing with the email situation, the classified situation, now material false statements investigation into that. We're not even talking about the Clinton Foundation and how that may bleed into her time as secretary of state.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Look, right now, what it looks like is she's got a Martha Stewart problem, which is the false information, misleading or her aides or pressuring somebody, that's a pretty big category. It also includes destroying information. Remember, she destroyed 30,000 emails and we have to assume that there was nothing in there that might have affected this case. That's a pretty tall assumption and she has a David Petraeus problem, which is the mishandling of classified information. These are real serious and I do think the FBI seems to be showing at least when you listen to the head of the FBI that they are not going to be deterred by political pressure. Now, in the end, it could turn out that the political appointees will not allow an indictment to go ahead, but if it happens and whoever is leaking this stuff is going to leak about what was suppressed, there will be resignations, it will like the Saturday night massacre that she knows about. She was there in the Watergate days, on the other side and it will be devastating for her.
