Recent CNN polls show Hillary Clinton’s overall popularity dropping below 50 percent. Over 60 percent of Americans don’t believe she can be trusted, and that is based on a track record that dates back decades.

Of course, the recent email server controversy is driving that number.

Of the 60,000 of her (commingled business/private) emails while secretary of state, she claimed 30,000 were personal, and many were to her husband, who was traveling the world accepting millions in countries where she had State Department dealings.

So, if we are to believe her, half the emails were not about government business. I’m sure none of those emails were done on government time, and any to Bill Clinton, about the Clinton Foundation, would not be of any interest to America.

Setting aside her entire body of government work, isn’t this really a matter of not using common sense? The State Department has a secure network for conducting affairs of state. Common sense would dictate she use that security. We now know classified information was involved, but she claims it wasn’t her fault.

Common sense says using a system that couldn’t be verified as secure, and which investigators say might have been hacked, would make its use unwise in light of her political aspirations. Hillary Clinton certainly knew her political ambitions were to run for president again.

Common sense should have told her that doing anything that could in any way lead to a controversy wouldn’t be a smart choice. Couldn’t she see this coming and, using common sense and good judgment, avoid these pitfalls?

She admits the private server was a mistake. How can so many people, many who don’t believe she can be trusted, support her?

A better question is: How can anyone who sees her repeated lack of common sense and judgment want her to run this country?

Donald L. Jordan

Naples

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