Matthew Dowd: Hillary Clinton’s Problems Are All ‘Self-Inflicted’

During a round table discussion of the ongoing debacle between Hillary Clinton and The New York Times, ABC News political contributor Matthew Dowd interjected with two rather poignant points about the 2016 presidential hopeful’s problems.

Firstly, Dowd thought that Clinton and the Democratic Party “attacking The New York Times” was “ironic,” given the paper’s famously liberal bent with regards to partisan American politics. Yet Dowd’s most damning comments came later, when the former chief strategist for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney‘s re-election campaign in 2004 claimed that Clinton’s wounds were all “self-inflicted”:

“Her huge, biggest problem is all self-inflicted. This is not a Republican conspiracy or a New York Times conspiracy. These are self-inflicted wounds that the Clintons and Hillary Clinton have done. When she arrives at this race, people are beloved of her when she’s not running for president. As soon as she runs for presidents, the questions start coming about ‘Can we trust her?’ ‘Do we know what she’s doing?'”

Mind you, most of it stems from the same GOP-driven talking points that many 2016 presidential candidates and news pundits have ranted and raved about in regards to Clinton’s private emails, Benghazi and so on.

Check out the clip below, courtesy of ABC News:

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