What did Hillary Clinton do that was so bad?

Answer 1

Nothing. From the start of Bill Clinton's presidency, conservatives and specifically Republicans have tried to tie the Clintons to scandals, but apart from Bill Clinton's personal sexual indiscretions they couldn't make any accusation stick. Hillary Clinton as a person has always been considered a fine First Lady, a good Senator and an able Foreign Secretary under President Obama.

Republicans also have on several occasions - the last one a few months ago - tried to blame her for the death in a riot of the US ambassador and some of his Embassy personnel in Libya, but Senate inquiries as well as several independent inquiries have absolved her from any personal blame.

Today the very general accusations are that she is in some way connected to "Big Money" (although no-one seems to mind that Donald Trump is a billionaire) and that she is a "Washington insider" which in the eyes of some is bad in itself. But no-one ever has linked Hilary Clinton to any shady 'insider deals" in Washington. Some say simply that she is 'part of the old system' but that of course is also true for every single member of Congress, including the ones who went in on behalf of the Tea Party promising to 'fight the system' without ever delivering on that promise.