Who do you trust? Hillary or Johnny?

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LA Times

Issue of voter trust revisits Hillary Clinton with email controversy

The controversy over Hillary Rodham Clinton's use of a private email account while secretary of State has turned a spotlight on an inevitable question about her expected presidential candidacy: whether Americans trust her.

Clinton has lived in the national public eye for nearly a quarter of a century, and over that time her political opponents have found that issues of trust can serve as powerful weapons against her.

As far back as 1996, when she was first lady, a survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center asked people to offer one-word descriptions of Clinton. The labels most often used by admirers were “strong” and “intelligent,” while opponents most often used “dishonest” and what Pew decorously described as “a derogatory term for women that rhymes with rich.”

Hillary Clinton on use of personal email: 'I opted for convenience'
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses the use of a personal email account. The accusation that Clinton can't be trusted or isn't honest has served as a rallying cry for opponents ever since. They've been helped at times by her own actions. Her penchant for control and secrecy — or, as she has put it, a desire to preserve some privacy despite her public career — repeatedly has led Clinton into situations in which many Americans believed she was, at best, skirting rules that others were expected to follow.

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