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In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Email: How to deal with deleting selected items in a large amount of email. [View all]hughee99
(16,113 posts)Why would anyone trust a government official to determine for themselves which files are relevant and which aren't? If you think this SHOULD be fine then we're definitely miles apart on what's acceptable.
This is going to have ZERO impact on the primary. By the general election, it will be dismissed as "old news" anyway. As I see it, this IS an issue, should be an issue, and people should push this issue because other politicians still think this is an acceptable way to conduct business, not because of any impact it will have on future elections.
Would you be okay if President Hillary Clinton conducted her email business on a private server set up by a private contractor in the basement of her private home and when she left office, turned over some of her email for posterity and deleted the rest? I know you wouldn't be okay with this if president Jeb Bush did it (for more reasons than just that there would be a "president Jeb Bush" .