Commentary: If Hillary Clinton wins, more scandals and lies to come

 Then the Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that, according to sources, the Obama Justice Department limited efforts by FBI agents to investigate whether the Clinton State Departmentgave special access and favors to Clinton Foundation donors. Congress will certainly investigate whether there was improper interference in those FBI efforts. And there will almost certainly be investigations into ABC News’ recent revelations that State Department officials gave special treatment to Clinton Foundation donors after the Haiti earthquake, asking for them to be identified as “FOBs” (friends of Bill Clinton) or “WJC VIPs” (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs) while sending others to a government website.

There will also be investigations into the Wall Street Journal’s revelations that the political organization of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (a Democrat who is a longtime “FOB”), and the state Democratic Party he controls, steered some $675,000 into the campaign of Virginia Senate candidate Jill McCabe, whose husband, Andrew, later helped oversee the Clinton email investigation as deputy director of the FBI. The Post reports that the FBI is also investigating whether McAuliffe, who was an unpaid director of the Clinton Foundation, violated a statute regarding U.S. citizens’ lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

Then expect a battle royal with Congress if Clinton tries to elevate close aides such as Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and others implicated in her email scandal to positions of public trust. In announcing that he would recommend against prosecution in July, Comey made a point of declaring that “this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions.” Republicans will insist that such sanctions be imposed on anyone who mishandled classified information, received immunity or took the Fifth in the Clinton investigation — including denial of access to classified material. And they may also want to look into how Abedin failed to turn over her husband’s laptop containing thousands of Clinton emails — after she swore under oath that she had handed over “all the devices” she possessed containing such emails.

Congress will almost certainly take a careful look into the leaked 12-page memo by Bill Clinton confidant Doug Band in which he details the squalid underside of what he calls “Bill Clinton, Inc.” and the shady nexus between the Clinton Foundation, Bill Clinton’s private speech income, Band’s consulting firm Teneo and the Clinton State Department.

In other words, the Clinton honeymoon is over before it even begins — and rightly so. It is simply inconceivable that Clinton aides removed classified “headers” from emails and used BleachBit to erase emails after receiving a congressional subpoena to preserve them, and yet not a single person has been punished. The whole Clinton machine seems to have an immunity from consequences. That is unhealthy in a democracy.

Today, some in the media may be turning a blind eye to Clinton’s scandals because they are terrified of the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. But once that prospect is off the table, the press may finally turn on her. And with just 11 percent of Americans believing she is honest, Clinton will have little public support to fall back on if they do.