The American people have overwhelmingly shown this year they do not find Hillary Clinton to be trustworthy. Two key reasons why Clinton is dogged by distrust are her private email scandal and the shadiness surrounding the Clinton Foundation and its donors. Two breaking stories by the Associated Press only deepen Clinton’s trust deficit.

First, the AP reported that, contrary to what Clinton has claimed, key emails held on her private server were never turned over to the State Department. They also reported that Clinton went as far as declining a State Department Blackberry. An email discovered from November 2010 also raises new questions about what other State Department emails Clinton is hiding from the American people:

“Former Secretary Hillary Clinton failed to turn over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrew email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-related emails may have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.”

The second story was just as explosive. It documented that Clinton’s official State Department schedule has been scrubbed of at least 75 meetings Clinton held as Secretary of State with “longtime political donors and loyalists, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests”:

“The AP review of Clinton’s calendar — her after-the-fact, official chronology of the events of her four-year term — identified at least 75 meetings with longtime political donors and loyalists, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests that were either not recorded or listed with identifying details scrubbed. The AP found the omissions by comparing the 1,500-page document with separate planning schedules supplied to Clinton by aides in advance of each day’s events. The names of at least 114 outsiders who met with Clinton were missing from her calendar, the records show.”

This new development also raises new and damaging questions for the FBI criminal investigation into Clinton’s illicit, private server set-up:

“At a time when Clinton’s private email system is under scrutiny by an FBI criminal investigation, the calendar omissions reinforce concerns that she sought to eliminate the ‘risk of the personal being accessible’ — as she wrote in an email exchange that she failed to turn over to the government but was subsequently uncovered elsewhere.”

Since Clinton’s email scandal broke it has been overwhelmingly obvious that the reason Clinton used a private server as Secretary of State was to shield less-than-flattering correspondence from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process and, by extension, the American people. These two stories show that even after she was caught, Clinton never provided a full accounting of her work emails to the State Department, and that she spent a significant time as Secretary of State hobnobbing with her cronies and wanted to prevent the country from knowing it. This was a cover-up, plain and simple. (For more from the author of “REVEALED: Clinton Held Secret Meetings With Billionaire Foundation Donors and Scrubbed Official Records of Them” please click HERE)

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Hillary Clinton did not turn over an important email about the problems caused by her use of a private email server for classified information.

Clinton sent an email to her deputy chief of staff stating that she did not want some of her emails to be “accessible,” presumably to Congress or to the State Department itself. That email helped form the basis of a scathing inspector general report that found Clinton violated rules.

Now, we know that Clinton did not hand over that email to State Department investigators, proving that Clinton violated her sworn statement that she handed over all of her emails. Her inability to hand over this email could also provide more evidence that she violated the Espionage Act by allowing national defense information to be “lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed” through gross negligence.

“While this exchange was not part of the approximately 55,000 pages provided to the State Department by former Secretary Clinton, the exchange was included within the set of documents Ms. Abedin provided the department in response to our March 2015 request,” said State Department spokesman John Kirby in a statement to the Associated Press. (Read more from “SMOKING GUN: Hillary Did Not Turn Over Email Showing She Hid Information” HERE)

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News of computer hacking of U.S. presidential campaigns by “Guccifer 2.0,” first reported a week ago by the Washington Post among other sources, has taken a new turn today with the release of information revealing that the Democratic National Committee has been investigating Hillary Clinton for potential vulnerabilities as a candidate for president.

The hacker, whom U.S. officials have claimed is associated with Russian intelligence services but who claims he is actually a Romanian national, released thousands of additional pages of DNC information to the internet today. The documents, summarized in reports by thesmokinggun.com and the Daily Mail, include dozens of pages of DNC investigations into Clinton’s speaking fees, her use of private aircraft and concerns related to the Clinton Foundation’s financial affairs.

One section is headed, “The Clinton Foundation has accepted donations from individuals, some of whom had ties to foreign governments, during her tenure as secretary of state.” Another noted that donations to the Foundation from “individuals tied to Saudi Arabia” had “raised eyebrows inside the FBI.”

The DNC Noted

The DNC also made note of Hillary Clinton’s “standard” $225,000 speaking fee and her requirement for travel aboard a 19-passenger private jet, a presidential suite plus up to “three (3) adjoining or contiguous rooms for her travel aides;’ and “a flat fee of $1000” for “an immediate transcription of Secretary Clinton’s remarks” to be prepared for Clinton’s private use by a stenographer.

The DNC also indicated potential concerns related to the Clinton Foundation’s relationship with organizers of paid speaking engagement by former president Bill Clinton. DNC accounting indicates he was paid $105.8 million for 544 speeches in the first three years following his departure from office.

There were also questions raised in the DNC documents about the Clinton Foundation’s compliance with disclosure agreements made with President Obama.

Guccifer 2.0 objected to The Smoking Gun’s previous characterization of himself or herself as a “felon” or “vandal.” “I’m not a criminal,” he said. “I’m a freedom fighter.”

Hilary Clinton Responds

Hillary Clinton responded to the cyberattack, reported the International Business Times, that “The Russian government uses cyberattacks to gain information to be used for economic commercial advantage, for political advantage and for military advantage. This seems like another example where they are trying to vacuum up information. Why? We don’t know yet.”

She said he campaign had not been hacked but that she would make cybersecurity “an issue that I will be absolutely focused on as president because whether it’s Russia, China, Iran or North Korea more and more countries are using hacking to steal out information. We can’t let that go on.”

The same report adds that “Russia has denied involvement. German Klimenko, the advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin, said it was likely that a DNC staffer “simply forgot the password.” (For more from the author of “Hacked Documents Reveal DNC Investigations Into Hillary Clinton ‘Vulnerabilities'” please click HERE)

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