Don't Compare 'Her Emails' With Trump's Brazen Misconduct

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.nationalmemo.com/but-her-emails-2657892471

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https://archive.ph/Rmi8I


Ever since the FBI searched Donald Trump’s premises at Mar-a-Lago on August 8 to retrieve the boxes of files he kept there unlawfully, he has tried to distract attention by reviving his bawling about "her emails."

For years, Trump has insisted that Hillary Clinton somehow escaped the punishment she merited — amid shrieks of "Lock her up!" from the likes of Rudy Giuliani and Mike Flynn— and now complains that he is somehow the victim of a "double standard" because the FBI is investigating his apparent theft of national security materials. "Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable," he whined earlier this month.

In fact, the former secretary of state endured many months of an intrusive investigation that cost her heavily in legal fees and personal demonization —although she was finally and fully exonerated of any criminal wrongdoing or intent by the Justice Department.

Rather than benefiting from favorable treatment by the FBI, Clinton was the target of a concerted smear campaign by Trump allies within the bureau instigated by Giuliani. Their internal operation pushed then FBI director James Comey to brazenly violate strict Justice Department political guidelines by discussing her case publicly twice, the last time only weeks before the November 2016 election — while at the same time concealing the counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign's collusion with the Kremlin. The sanctimonious Comey, who claimed to be above politics, cowered under threat from right-wingers lodged within the Bureau.

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[elleng]

1. REALLY!!!!

[crickets]

2. Comey cost Clinton the election, the country has been paying for it ever since,

and will continue to suffer the fallout for years. It infuriates me every time I think of it.

The article does an excellent job of refuting any comparison to tfg's crimes.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. I'll never forgive Comey