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The smoking gun in the Hillary Clinton email scandal has been found and it’s massive.

According to Rachael Bade of POLITICO, a report from the State Department contains an email in which longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin asked Clinton if she wanted to use State Dept. email.

Clinton replied no because she wanted to maintain privacy.

NEW EMAIL: OIG report has new email where Abedin asks HRC if she wants to get State email. HRC says no bc privacy https://t.co/YZFINSJhbV — Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 25, 2016

DUDE. State IG report has Clinton telling Abedin she doesn't want an official email acct b/c she wants to avoid FOIA pic.twitter.com/apAbAS76Aa — Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) May 25, 2016

Moreover, while other former secretaries of state gave interviews with the State Dept., Clinton and her cronies did not cooperate.

MORE FROM REPORT: @hillaryclinton, Mills, Huma, Sullivan didn’t cooperate w/State OIG probe. Powell, Albright, Rice did interviews — Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 25, 2016

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The emails also revealed the server was shut down over hacking concerns.

State OIG report has Clinton aide shutting down private server in 2011 because "someone was trying to hack us." pic.twitter.com/t9jlsvJ044 — Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) May 25, 2016

h/t: Twitchy.