Main Stream Media Just Finding Out Clinton Email Scandal Was Just A GOP Pipe Dream

After a summer in which major news outlets made hay out of a supposed “Hillary Clinton email scandal” long after the federal government had made clear that she had violated no laws or policies and was not under investigation, this weekend has marked a sudden turning point in which various outlets have finally begun acknowledging that there was no wrongdoing. The latest domino to fall, USA Today, may be the turning point at which the entire faux-controversy dies down, with the national newspaper acknowledging yesterday that Clinton has in fact been cleared by investigators.

Earlier this summer a State Department spokesperson told CNN that Hillary Clinton hadn’t broken and rules or policies with her use of email while Secretary of State, a revelation which was almost inexplicably ignored by most other news outlets. Than an FBI spokesperson told the New York Times that Clinton was not a target in their email investigation, which was focused on hackers; rather she was being viewed as the potential victim. Again, the major news of a second federal agency giving Clinton the all-clear on email was ignored.

But now that the Department of Justice has flat-out stated in a legal briefing that Hillary Clinton had all along been within her legal rights to handle her Secretary of State email however she wanted, the mainstream media outlets appear to no longer have any choice but to acknowledge that the entire “controversy” had been a sham. The Washington Times admitted as much on Friday. MSNBC host Chris Hayes did the same on-air. And now the conservative leaning USA Today, whose audience consists largely of moderate to conservative readers, is finally fessing up and admitting that there was never any “there” there.

The DOJ has stated that “There is no question that former Secretary Clinton had authority to delete personal emails without agency supervision — she appropriately could have done so even if she were working on a government server,” and USA Today printed the quote yesterday under a headline reading “Justice Dept.: Clinton allowed to delete personal emails.”

It turns out it only took official statements from three separate government agencies before the media was finally willing to admit that the entire email situation had been fully above board from the start. Not that the media is going to admit it made the entire “scandal” up out of thin air in the hopes of getting ratings during an otherwise non-competitive primary season in which Hillary Clinton leads the democratic party primary by twenty-plus points in every national poll. But at least the media is now admitting that Clinton has done nothing wrong. And that admission should make it more difficult for anyone to keep propping up the fake scandal as loudly going forward.