Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton will not be indicted over her use of a private email server, but when the FBI report on the case is issued it will create a "firestorm" against her, wrecking her chances at the Oval Office, political strategist Dick Morris tells
Newsmax TV.
With Clinton "increasingly likely to be the Democratic nominee," Attorney General Loretta Lynch will not indict, Morris said Wednesday on "Newsmax Now."
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The FBI report, however, will be released to the public, who "will see that she ought to have been indicted," he said. "It's going to create a firestorm akin to the Saturday Night Massacre in Watergate which alluded everybody to the fact that Nixon was not willing to release these tapes, and that led to his ouster from office."
Top Clinton aide Huma Abedin will be under intense pressure, Morris said, since she may be subpoenaed and can't plead her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination without hurting Clinton irrevocably.
"This does not have to go to an indictment, to trial and Hillary being in jail for this to impact the election," he said, adding it is already impacting the election because Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign is being fueled not by his ideology, but by voters' dislike and distrust Hillary Clinton for her lack of honesty.
Appearing Wednesday on "Dennis Michael Lynch: Unfiltered," Morris said Clinton will not do well with Millennials, who are likely to turn out in large numbers.
"She'll carry them but not by much," he said. "The Millennials hate Hillary Clinton. That's why they're voting for Bernie Sanders. It's not their ideology, it's their dislike of Hillary Clinton."
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On other issues, Morris said:
- Latinos born in the United States are far less in agreement with Democrats on illegal immigration than are those board abroad who have been naturalized as citizens. "About a third of the Latino vote are people born abroad, two-thirds of people born here and when you ask about blanket amnesty for example like Obama did, the ones who were born abroad supported by 80-something percent, but the ones who were born here oppose it," though not by a large number.
- Donald Trump is making a change in his brash style "stylistically ... but I'm concerned that he's not making the substantive transition. He's basically just doing a whole bunch of soundbites like he's done before and he says them in different ways and so on."