Ed Klein On Clinton Email Scandal: This Is Only The First Shoe To Drop, There Will Be More
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Ed Klein, author of Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas, wrote an article in the New York Post about Hillary Clinton's email scandal, which White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest has called "utter baloney."
He told Talk Radio 1210 WPHT morning host Chris Stigall that he stands by his story, and that he feels that this is just the first scandal to come out of Valerie Jarrett's investigations into the former Secretary of State.
"I had three separate sources on this story: one in the White House, one in the State Department, and one in the Clinton camp. These three people don't even know each other. They've never met each other, and each of them independently told me the story that I wrote in the New York Post, which is quite simply that Valerie Jarrett has instigated a series of investigations of Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State in the State Department and the first shoe to drop is the email scandal."
According to Klein's sources, pundits across the nation are not the only ones that disagree with how Hillary has handled this most recent scandal.
"My sources tell me that Bill Clinton was apoplectic that they had waited eight days before Hillary responded to it publicly. He thought that they should have gotten ahead of it a lot sooner. Bill is not very enamored with her operation."
Klein talks about how even though there is a massive rift between the two most recent Democratic First families, President Obama decided to name Hillary his Secretary of State.
"He decided to bring her in because he felt that by doing so, he would do what the Godfather always recommended, 'keep your friends close and your enemies closer.' By bringing her in, he thought that he would neutralize Bill Clinton."
When it comes to her future, Klein feels that it is "always very hard to predict about the Clintons when it comes to these scandals" and the way that they have dealt with them in the past show that.
"They've been hit by dozens of scandals in their career and they've weathered them all. They've generally played the long game, not conceding anything to their opponents, holding on, hoping that people will have short memories, and I think that's that way that Hillary will handle this."
