Hillary Clinton: The most exonerated politician ever

[applegrove]

Hillary Clinton: The most exonerated politician ever

By Jennifer Rubin, Opinion writer at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/12/hillary-clinton-most-exonerated-politician-ever/?utm_source=reddit.com

"SNIP.......

Hillary Clinton has a unique distinction: She has been exonerated twice after extensive federal investigations, the latest entirely unjustified and the result of a politicized Justice Department. President Trump of course was NOT exonerated in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation, which found 10 or so categories of conduct that but for the present policy of Justice Department guidelines would serve as the basis for obstruction-of-justice charges. If Trump is defeated in November he can still be criminally charged the moment he leaves office.

But back to Clinton. It may be hard to remember given then-FBI Director James B. Comey’s voluminous investigative report in the midst of the 2016 election, his testimony before Congress and his intrusion into the campaign 11 days before Election Day, but he found no basis she committed a crime. His subjective comments about poor judgment and negligence were entirely irrelevant (and frankly inappropriate for the FBI, which is charged with finding or not finding criminal conduct). The bottom line: Clinton committed no crimes.

That was not enough for Trump. Based on no new evidence but rather on an undisguised personal vendetta, Trump opened up another investigation. The Post reported:

John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was tapped in November 2017 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into concerns raised by President Trump and his allies in Congress that the FBI had not fully pursued cases of possible corruption at the Clinton Foundation and during Clinton’s time as secretary of state, when the U.S. government decided not to block the sale of a company called Uranium One.

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[jpak]

1. Yup

[applegrove]

2. And she did 10 hours of testimony in Benghazi in one day and remembered

everything and answered all the questions. Trump got the questionaire from Muller and answered it with his lawyers helping. He had weeks to answer.

[MissMillie]

8. Yeah, that one was a bit much, by almost any measure

"Congressional investigations have a way of stretching from months to years, but the House committee probe into 2012’s Benghazi attack was especially lengthy. At two years and four months, it was longer than Congressional probes into 9/11, Watergate, the JFK assassination and Pearl Harbor."

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/congress-spent-more-time-investigating-benghazi-than-did/hlWHBsbtLlZz3UoZ5vSK9J/

[2naSalit]

3. And most wrongly accused....nt

[DURHAM D]

4. K & R

[sandensea]

5. But to Repugs it was a "whitewash"

Cheeto on the other hand - who has spent 40+ years evading prosecution despite ample proof of everything from fraud to tax evasion, and now conspiracy against the United States - is a "victim."

[MissMillie]

7. I've heard more than one MAGAt say

that she's just better at hiding stuff than trump is.

[sandensea]

9. +1

They'll believe whatever suits them.

And what suits them, is always what's convenient to whomever caters to their ethnic hatred and other assorted hangups.

[Gothmog]

6. I am boycotting the NYT