Earlier this year, the public found out the Hillary Clinton used her personal email to send emails to other department officials because she believed that the emails would be stored on government servers because she was frequently corresponding with government officials. The State Department disclosed, on March 13, that the department, until last month, had no way of routinely preserving senior officials’ emails. The State Department now relies on the government employees to save their own emails to a server or manually print them off and file them.

March 16, the Clinton campaign claims that there were steps taken to review thousands of personal emails before they were deleted. Clinton said her team read “every email” before deleting those emails, which were viewed as private. As a result, 30,ooo emails were turned over the the State Department and 32,000 emails were called “private” and were discarded.

The controversy over Clinton’s use of a private email account while Secretary of State has turned a spotlight on an inevitable question about her expected presidential candidacy: whether Americans trust her. The accusation that Clinton can’t be trusted or isn’t honest has served as a rallying cry for opponents ever since. They’ve been helped at times by her own actions. Her penchant for control and secrecy — or, as she has put it, a desire to preserve some privacy despite her public career — repeatedly has led Clinton into situations in which many Americans believed she was, at best, skirting rules that others were expected to follow.