'That's right: zero.' Hillary Clinton obliterates Donald Trump's false equivalency about classified

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Former United States Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has weighed in on the ongoing drama surrounding the trove of classified documents that were seized from ex-President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Palm Beach, Florida on August 8th.

Trump and his Republican defenders have crafted a catalog of excuses for his behavior, including attempting to equate his clandestine collection of sensitive materials with the investigation into Clinton's private email server during the 2016 campaign.

Clinton was cleared of intentional wrongdoing by then-FBI Director James Comey, who went on to throw a wrench into the 2016 election when he announced in October of that year that a laptop belonging to disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-New York) contained Clinton-related emails. Although that too wound up being a nothing burger, many people believe that Comey's untimely update handed the election to Trump.

On Tuesday, Clinton explained in a Twitter thread why Trump World's comparison to her State Department emails is false.

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/that-s-right-zero-hillary-clinton-obliterates-donald-trump-s-false-equivalency-about-classified-documents/ar-AA11wKcN

[ismnotwasm]

1. K&R

[love_katz]

2. Kick!

[tableturner]

3. K and R

[Hekate]

4. Kick

[roamer65]

5. But...but...

HER EMAILS.

[Ray Bruns]

6. Believe it because that is all they have.

[OMGWTF]

7. Rethuglicans have NOTHING so they go back to the Clinton emails/Hunter Biden's Laptop well.

[Jarqui]

8. So we can hold Trump to Hillary's standard:

If he's got no classified docs, he doesn't get locked up ...

Otherwise, most Trumpers know what has to happen.

"LOCK HIM UP!"

[Heather MC]

9. Bloop

[niyad]

10. KNR

[Brother Buzz]

11. But, but she acid washed her emails, too!

That might be bad is someone can explain what in what in tarnation acid washing an email is.

[Johnny2X2X]

12. She did nothing of the sort

An IT guy destroyed some hard drives later on as is normal practice to protect information.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. k and r. but what about his stolen documents ?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. The Clinton email investigation is NOT relevant to TFG's theft of top-secret documents

TFG and others want to compare the Clinton email investigation to TFG's theft of top-secret documents. Such comparisons are stupid in that there were not classified documents mishandled by Hillary and TFG actually stole and mishandled top secred documents

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-refuse-grasp-clinton-standard-rcna45429

There was, however, a key detail that shouldn’t go overlooked. Graham didn’t just seem to justify prospective violence, the longtime GOP lawmaker also went into some detail about the basis for the perceived injustice. “If they try to prosecute President Trump for mishandling classified information after Hillary Clinton set up a server in her basement,” the senator told Fox News, “there literally will be riots in the street.”.....

The problem emerges when grown-ups bother to look beyond the surface — and notice that the allegations surrounding Clinton and Trump aren’t especially similar.

Clinton’s email protocols were, of course, the subject of a lengthy criminal probe. Federal investigators appeared eager to find evidence of wrongdoing: then-FBI Director James Comey privately marveled at the “visceral hatred” some senior FBI officials in New York had for the former secretary of state.

But federal law enforcement nevertheless didn’t charge the Democrat with any crimes because they couldn’t find evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Comey took the extraordinary step of publicly criticizing Clinton anyway, but he grudgingly conceded that the FBI, following an exhaustive investigation, couldn’t indict her.

Trump’s State Department similarly conceded — late on a Friday afternoon — that there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information from Clinton. The inspector general’s office in Trump’s Justice Department also concluded that the FBI had no reason to charge Clinton.

Trump’s scandal bears little resemblance to his former rival’s. Clinton didn’t take physical documents. She didn’t ignore pleas for cooperation. She didn’t store highly sensitive secrets at a private club that had an unfortunate habit of letting foreign spies walk around.

Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong. TFG did break the law and grossly mishandled top secret documents.