Hillary Clinton has taken too much money from people with business before the government to dismiss concerns about conflicts of interest out of hand.

She’s taken it in smaller sums from direct donors to her campaigns for Senate and president, much larger contributions to the party she now runs, eye-popping personal payments for speeches and astronomical gifts to the Clinton Foundation.

The public deserves to know how she plans to prevent all that money from unduly influencing her if she is elected president.

It can be easy in this campaign season to temporarily lose sight of the ugly optics of her relationships with the wealthy and self-interested because Donald Trump, who is wealthy and self-interested, obscures questions about Clinton by raising the specter of violence against her, saying that she and President Obama co-founded ISIS and offending just about everyone who isn’t an older white, conservative man.

But that doesn’t mean she deserves no scrutiny. Judicial Watch’s recent release of emails showing that aides to her and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, talked about arranging a meeting for a donor with a State Department official and trying to find employment for another person are hardly a smoking gun in terms of improper behavior.