Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton trotting out former Miss Universe Alicia Machado earlier in the day in Florida at a rally to criticize her opponent GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
According to Krauthammer, it demonstrated there was not much left in the “tank” for the Clinton campaign to attack Trump.
“The instinctive reaction of the Clinton campaign, again, reflecting the candidate herself is to dump,” Krauthammer said. “It’s to hide. It’s to cover. That’s been the way the Clintons have operated for 30 years and that’s what they ended up doing. They ended up segregating 30,000 e-mails and then destroying them so that Trey Gowdy said even God can’t read them now. That, look, what’s happening here is she is now drowning in the cumulative effect of the Wikileaks and of the FBI deal. She can’t get her message out.”
“I think A.B. is exactly right,” he continued. “When you have to bring Alicia Machado back on stage three weeks later or is it now four weeks later, that shows you got nothing left in the tank. This is a desperation move. It’s her only move because nothing she says can escape the black hole of all this incoming ammunition. We are looking at all of the weeds and the details of this. Nobody is out there, but what they see is cover-up, concealment and perhaps
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