Except Clinton was wildly popular before the trolls amplified attacks against her with crazy conspiracy theories about her emails, having by far the highest approval rating among the field in July 2015. https://news.gallup.com/poll/185324/hillary-clinton-favorabl...
The conspiracy theories were the wild claims about the contents of the emails.
Measured against other political scandals, the fact that she did unclassified email correspondence (as all email correspondence in the State Department is) on her own email server was minor enough to not warrant charges as Comey's investigation concluded. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/state-department-ema...
