Could I ask a dumb question? What is the deal with Hillary's e-mails?

[leftyladyfrommo]

Why does the Mad King keep screaming that they need to be investigated?

And the Podesta brother? What is that about.

I can't make any sense out of what he rants anymore.

[skylucy]

1. You can't make sense of it because it doesn't make any sense...

It is just a BS talking point to distract stupid people from the fact that we have a president and a majority of Republican politicians who are treasonous and corrupt. They don't want to talk about the fact that Mr. Mueller has the goods on them, so they are trying to discredit Hillary (and the FBI and Mueller).

[ooky]

27. Its not intended to make sense.

Its for his base. Just hearing him say "Hillary" causes them to froth at the mouth and they don't even know why.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Years of investigation, no indictments.

Since then we have learned that 11 of tRump's henchmen used private email servers for official government business including Pence, Bannon, Jarvanka and others.

It was all about smearing Hillary for years before she ran so that she had to fight up from a negative.

RepubliCONMEN.

Read up on the history in the obvious places. These links may jump-start your reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Podesta#Investigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails

[smirkymonkey]

19. +1000

I am so sick of hearing about "her e-mails" I could scream. The thing is, most republicans don't know what they are ranting about either. They just hop on the bandwagon.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Turn it around on them. Make em sick of hearing "no indictments" & "11 Trumpers did the same thing".

[LonePirate]

3. It's a diversionary rallying cry to his base and nothing else.

He wants them to foam at the mouth over the bogus emails story so they pay no attention to his crimes.

[pnwmom]

4. The deal is that the only thing he can criticize her for is something trivial.

She had her government emails mixed in with personal emails. So she gave her devices to her lawyers to sort them out. They used a computer program to do so, and then gave the govt. emails to the govt. Someone, not Hillary, on his own initiative decided they didn't need to save the personal ones and deleted them. I can't remember whether they were ever recovered or not, but that's what DT's harping on - her personal emails.

[LuckyCharms]

5. Her email scandal was investigated by the FBI and...

they determined that while she was reckless in her handling of the emails (private server and all that), her actions did not rise to the level of a crime.

What you are hearing from the right is them grasping desperately at straws, because they have nothing. However, they will still hound Hillary to her grave. And afterwards.

[triron]

17. Even though her private server ended up being more secure than many

federal agency servers. Yeah she was careless but all these agencies weren't?

[dawg day]

26. The Trumpers don't actually KNOW what's bad about this--

they just say "her emails" like email is like "child porn"-- you know, something evil by definition. and if you say, "Trump's aides do the same thing... for that matter, Trump constantly uses his private and unsecure phone," they'll say, "Her emails!" None of this has anything to do with reality. If Trump said, "Crooked Hillary! She eats mushrooms!" they'd all obediently say, "She is corrupt! She eats mushrooms!"

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. Distraction.

Trying to maintain whatever base he has left.

[Aristus]

7. Political mud-slinging. Nothing more.

Apparently, Hillary Clinton sent a series of e-mails through her private server during her time as SoS, instead of through the State Department's server. Nothing that hundreds of politicians don't do every single day of the year.

But the repukes latched on to it, knowing that there was no fire to go with the smoke, and fanned it into a conflagration. They held Congressional hearing after Congressional hearing, knowing nothing illegal was going to turn up. But the goal was to get people to say 'Congressional hearing' and Hillary Clinton's name as many times as possible in the same sentence.

The one goal was to de-rail her Presidential campaign. Not national security, not ethics in politics, nothing. Just 'get Hillary.' And that's it.

Do you think after Trump revealed classified information to the Russians on record and in the Oval Office with no repercussions from the repubs that national security had anything to do with their hounding of HRC?

If the Congressional craphounds who did this had lived four hundred years ago, they would have been the fools and idiots who hanged that nice old lady who lived down the street because her chicken laid a funny-looking egg and that meant she was a witch.

I don't think there's a Hell hot enough for these assholes to burn in...

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. Trump makes calls on his personal cell phone.

A cell phone could be hacked pretty easily. But that is ok?

Not that anyone could make heads or tails of what he is saying.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. It's okay only if you are RepubliCon, apparently. . . . nt

[Shrike47]

9. Podesta brothers - I have some ideas.

John Podesta was Hillary’s campaign chief. His e-mails were hacked and leaked by the Russians. The Nutso crowd decided there were covert messages and codes in the e-mails that disclosed a satanic sex ring of Washington insiders, which evolved into Pizzagate. The only thing to investigate here is the leaking, and that wouldn’t help Trump a damned bit. They could investigate the crazy but, to what end?

Tony Podesta is a lobbyist whose firm was hired by Manafort to push the Ukraine. Mueller et al. Investigated him last fall re: possible failure to register as an agent of a foreign government. I can’t see how that could help Trump, either, but I suppose he would say Dems do it to, so it’s Ok if I break the law.

[nolabear]

10. From a psychological standpoint it's a projective field.

Since we can't see them they could be ANYTHING! So he'll repeat over and over again that they're something nefarious and the boogeyman is hiding under that bed and BOY if you only knew...

It's a tactic. And he's a petty, stupid wannabe dictator who's betting he can control the emotions and, if it comes to it, actions of his minions by fear and suspicion by making them absolutely sure Hillary is an evil woman who's the source of all the suffering in the world and those emails surely contain the proof.

Meanwhile she just gave a hopeful, forward-looking speech at Yale that heartened me greatly.

We have to survive him and hope his minions generally aren't motivated enough to do too much damage when he blows up and/or goes down.

[salin]

11. keep in mind the sources for his rants are wacked out fringe media

that inspire other consumers to do bat sh#t crazy things like this:

You only need to watch a minute - to get the idea

[smirkymonkey]

20. OMG! How stupid can a person get?

She really thinks the vinegar sprayed in her yard cleared them up?

This, right here, is how people like Trump get elected and stay in power.

[salin]

21. apparently there is a whole subculture within the conspiracy theory fringe that is devoted to this.

It is both hilarious - and frightening.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. And the so called

non biased Media became biased towards Trump. Most can recall all those Breaking News headlines cming from the Comcast Media and CNN Media outlets.

And when Monvise told a Media Conference,Trump was the best money maker we in the Media ever had.

[gordianot]

13. It is the difference between a hit and run drunk driver and jay walking in a rain storm.

Guess who is the hit and run driver?

[Vinca]

14. I look forward to the day the statute of limitations for any perceived crime re the emails runs out.

This is the stalest talking point in the history of talking points. Republicans have nothing - even their talking points are nothing.

[Odoreida]

15. I know! I know! (waves hand)

The deleted emails would prove once and for all Hillary is a bitch.

[Takket]

16. they were investigated........

and the FBI found no crimes had been committed, only that she had been "careless" with the storage of her emails. everyone screaming for an investigation seems to forget that.

[asiliveandbreathe]

18. John Dean shatters, disects, and leaves in ruin their ranting - from article

8/2016..the same players as we hear today - Gowdy, Goodlatte, Johnson, Chaffetz etc etc..I saved this article from before the election - someone should have been listening...

http://www.newsweek.com/squalid-case-against-hillary-and-her-emails-492017

John Deans summation -

Bottom line: The charges that Secretary Clinton lied to Congress are baseless. While there may be a few technical errors in her testimony, and there may be information that was discovered by the FBI after she testified, there is absolutely no evidence at all that she willfully and knowingly provided false information to Congress.

Ironically, there are more false statements in the letter from chairmen Goodlatte and Chaffetz to the Department of Justice, which are clearly intentional, than the hours upon hours of testimony given by Secretary Clinton.

If these men were ordinary citizens, they could be arrested for making false statements to law enforcement. They lied and played it for a one-day headline, and in doing so performed at the level of banana-republic legislators, if not lower.

Sadly their actions are consistent with the thinking of the new Republican Party leader, Donald Trump, who would be proud of their effort to “Lock her up, Lock her up.”

[Hekate]

24. Psychological projection on the Mad King's part. Always. nt

[Hamlette]

25. the 30,000 "missing" emails were personal emails.

when the private server was discovered, Hilary was directed to turn over all work emails. She went through them, and deleted the personal emails like prep for Chelsey's wedding etc. So those are the "missing" emails Trump talks about.