Washington – President Donald Trump is again criticizing the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and he’s suggesting that “at some point” he “may have to get involved!”
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Trump is asserting, without providing evidence, that the FBI failed to thoroughly review Clinton’s emails as part of its investigation into her use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state.
The president also tweets more criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, writing that Sessions “doesn’t understand what is happening underneath his command position.”
Trump is accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of “having a field day as real corruption goes untouched.”
The tweets cap a difficult week for Trump in which his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said the president directed him to arrange hush money payments to two women before the election.
Deflect, deflect, deflect.
Can someone tell Trump that having classified material on a private server isn’t illegal.
Whenever Trump has had a bad week of media coverage he brings up Cinton. This coming week he needs something to displace his newly revealed love child as the top tabloid story.
Boooring. Its.no news. VO has nothing else to publish??!!
I can’t tell if poster #2 is being sarcastic or serious. Whether or not private e-mail server (holding government confidential information) is legal, there is certainly no precedent (the only precedent was private email accounts, not private email servers) and I cannot imagine how this did not violate at least “State Department protocols and procedures” if not actual criminal law.
To quote Wikipedia:
> FBI Director James Comey identified 110 emails as containing information that was classified at the time it was sent, including 65 emails deemed “Secret” and 22 deemed “Top Secret”.
But the item that has not received the attention it should is the deletion of (about) 31,000 emails that Clinton claimed were “personal”. Seems obvious that this was a destruction of evidence in an on-going investigation, because, if for no other reason, it is not up to her to decide for the investigators just what is, or is not, “private”.
Imagine, for comparison, if Trumps ex-lawyer Cohen had destroyed thousands of those files that the FBI wanted to see, using the claim that they were private and not relevant to the investigation? Why treat Clinton differently under what is in essence the same?
Ran out of space, so to continue. What get to a lay person such as myself is that the very same action could be treated so differently depending on which particular section or law out of the labyrinth is used to indict, as well as how different judges will interpret the same law. But in further response to poster #2 , just what is a layperson to imagine from two lines taken from Wikipedia as follows:
> Section 1924 of Title 18 of the United States Code addresses the deletion and retention of classified documents, under which “knowingly” removing or housing classified information at an “unauthorized location” is subject to a fine, or up to a year in prison.
> Inspector General Linick wrote that he “found no evidence that staff in the Office of the Legal Adviser reviewed or approved Secretary Clinton’s personal system”, and also found that multiple State employees who raised concerns regarding Clinton’s server were told that the Office of the Legal Adviser had approved it, and were further told to “never speak of the Secretary’s personal email system again”.
The double standard runs strong these days. If Trump did not violate any laws, why are the Democrats so obsessed with the desire to impeach him? While that effort would fail, according to all experts, it would baschmutz his reputation. It will prove their contention that he is undeserving of the office. Now let’s examine Hillary’s record. Even according to the FBI corrupt decision to not prosecute, Hillary was in violation of a whole bunch of State Department regs to which she had already placed her signature of commitment to comply. This “irresponsibility” certainly renders her not material for president.
Now the cherry on top. There is overwhelming evidence of Hillary being inept and dishonest. Not so for Trump. Way over a year of investigation, and no one has seen a single item of evidence to indicate collusion of any kind.
The Republicans in the House or the Senate can open an investigation. Why don’t they?