Donald Trump should keep "rubbing salt" in Hillary Clinton's credibility wound as the 2016 presidential campaign enters its final months, former White House Chief of Staff John Sununu tells
Newsmax TV.
"She almost got indicted over some of her legal practice at one point and that's going to come out soon. She is going to have to deal with this issue of character and I personally think it's going to be the most powerful issue in the campaign," Sununu said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show."
"All [Trump has] got to do is keep rubbing salt in the wound."
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Sununu, who served in the George H.W. Bush administration and was also a governor of New Hampshire, said Clinton has "real problems" as she prepares to become the Democratic presidential nominee — particularly with the email scandal swirling around her.
"What really is her biggest problem is that the whole issue of the emails, the whole issue of the server just makes even deeper the perception that American voters already have about Mrs. Clinton," he said.
"They already suspect there's something fishy about this lady's dealings from the time she had the Whitewater problem to all the strange dealings in the White House to the Clinton Foundation and this just reinforces it."
Sununu is author of
"The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush," published by Broadside.
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