92 Percent Of Americans: Clinton Wrong In Email Scandal

On July 5, FBI Director James Comey officially announced that his agency would not be recommending criminal charges against Hillary Clinton in the case involving her private email server. The announcement effectively cleared the path for Clinton legally, but a new poll suggests that the American public still views Clinton’s actions poorly.

The Hill reports a recent Associated Press-GfK poll showing that 92 percent of Americans believe Clinton’s email set-up was either illegal or was in “poor judgment.”

The survey further reports that 39 percent of respondents believe Clinton intentionally broke the law, with another 17 percent saying she broke the law unintentionally.

The Hill also notes that an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 56 percent of Americans oppose Comey’s recommendation not to pursue criminal charges against Clinton.

“She’s innocent until proven guilty, but to me, the FBI director called her guilty and then gave her a pass card,” James Thompson, a Republican, told Fortune magazine. “If that was anyone else in this world, they would have been gone. They would have been down the river. They would have been in jail.”

John Reilly, a Republican, struggles with his choice between Trump and Clinton.

According to The New York Times, Reilly believes Clinton’s scandal showed “utter disrespect for the laws that govern the little people. And that in my mind makes her unfit to be president.”

But Holly Brown, a 70-year-old retiree, believes the Clinton scandal was overblown, and supports the candidate as much as ever.

“I think there’s a lot of sexism going on,” Brown said. “There’s very much a double standard,” she added, noting that political fact-checking site Politifact has “found [Clinton] to be the most honest politician in the race.”

Rich Gates, a former Democrat who has registered Republican, defends Clinton’s actions. “She’s been through many political wars,” he began. “I think she’s too savvy to get into that kind of trouble.”  

Sources: The Hill, Fortune, The New York Times / Photo credit: Hillary Clinton/Instagram