Will scandals overwhelm Hillary Clinton?

NAIROBI: As the 2016 US presidential campaign got underway, it looked as if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in the clear, scandal-wise. Whatever accusations had chomped at her heels and her husband’s, former President Bill Clinton over the years, she had outrun them.
Still, she seemed to be a part of that web of private law firms, private fees, private investments and private connections that gives politics-as-usual a bad name.

Yet, Hillary Clinton had survived, in part because she barrelled through the scandals with stunning resolve.
It puts me in mind of David Begelman. In the late 1970s, Begelman, then head of Columbia Pictures and a major Hollywood mogul, was accused of embezzling $10,000 from the studio. On the day the story broke, it was a bombshell.