Ask voters why they don’t trust Mrs. Clinton, and again and again they will answer with a single word: Emails. Mrs. Clinton, through her lawyers, declined to be interviewed by the inspector general as part of the review. But as the Democratic primary contest comes to a close, any hopes Mrs. Clinton had of running a high-minded, policy-focused campaign have collided with a more visceral problem. The report speaks directly to a wounding perception that Mrs. Clinton is not forthright or transparent. She has already turned over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department.

Source: New York Times May 25, 2016 19:40 UTC