The former she can do nothing about. The latter is her own fault, as this latest email controversy shows.

Her first mistake was obviously to use a private email server for her work as secretary of state – something that the FBI described as “extremely careless”.

Others interpret it as a deliberate attempt to control the flow of information and a contravention of federal law on record keeping.

She did hand over thousands of emails to FBI investigators that had passed through her server, but she also deleted over 30,000 on the grounds that they were personal.