http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/hillary-clintons-truth-problem/486395/Hillary Clinton's Truth Problem
The presumptive Democratic nominee learned long ago that public trust is a precious resource. Has she forgotten?
Ron Fournier Jun 9, 2016
The day after she sealed the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton took a victory lap of the nation’s top newsrooms and delivered the most predictable and practiced comments. She honored her mother. She trashed Donald Trump. She wooed Bernie Sanders’ supporters.
It was a Trumpian triumph of message management. She fielded a few softball questions (“Did you actually end up choking up?” one reporter asked with regard to Clinton’s Tuesday night speech, adding later: “With your permission we’ll pivot to, back to hard politics”) and the headlines broke her way (“Hillary Clinton Hits Donald Trump on Economics” and “Hillary Clinton on Winning, and Why Her Mother Would Be Nervous”).
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