We know, for example, that the focus on Clinton’s emails in the recent past was absurd, as some are now acknowledging. We also know the problem isn’t limited to the past.
The New York Times’ report on Saturday noted, for example, “Mr. Trump’s own administration officials – including his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner – have admitted to using private messaging services to conduct official work. House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry has revealed that Trump administration diplomats used private phones to message each other about their efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate the president’s American political rivals, including the Bidens.”
This was brought to readers’ attention in the 15th – and final – paragraph in the article that appeared on page A16. After years in which Republicans and major news outlets insisted that State Department email protocols were of the utmost importance, we’ve seen ample evidence of Trump administration figures failing to comply with the same federal record-keeping rules, and it tends to be treated as trivia.
Which would make sense, were it not for the fact that the American electorate was told the opposite when it was Hillary Clinton’s messages making headlines.
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