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Botany

(70,291 posts)
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 09:49 AM Feb 2022

USA Today: The 'but Hillary's emails' crowd goes silent about Trump's document destruction

Remember when, in October 2016, House Republicans launched a series of hearings attacking the then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her emails?

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who now serves as the lead Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, fumed that “Hillary Clinton gets treated different than anybody else.” Another member of the panel stated, “This is the reason for this hearing – the sloppiness, the messiness, and the ability for a secretary of State to do something that shouldn’t have been done.” Another Republican weighed in, “I want to know about the destruction – the hammering of BlackBerrys.” The panel’s chairman at the time, Jason Chaffetz, who can now be seen espousing self-righteous nonsense of Fox News, attacked Clinton, “The secretary had a choice. She chose to not abide by the rules of the State Department.”

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As reported by The Post, “The National Archives and Records Administration last month retrieved 15 boxes of documents and other items from former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence because the material should have been turned over to the agency when he left the White House, Archives officials said Monday. … The Archives has struggled to cope with a president who flouted document retention requirements and frequently ripped up official documents, leaving hundreds of pages taped back together – or some that arrived at the Archives still in pieces.”


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Given these bombshell revelations, coupled with their concern for federal government record-keeping compliance, you would think Republicans would be foaming at the mouth, chanting “Lock Him Up” and calling for an immediate series of hearings and subpoenas to be issued to anyone who was a part of the Trump White House.

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Jim Jordan isn’t grand-standing on Fox News calling Donald Trump incompetent or a liar or “absolutely wrong.”

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USA Today: The 'but Hillary's emails' crowd goes silent about Trump's document destruction (Original Post) Botany Feb 2022 OP
Big difference in standards when it comes to a racist pig. Doodley Feb 2022 #1
As opposed to TFG The Wizard Feb 2022 #2
I will die angry what "they*" did to that good person, Hillary. Botany Feb 2022 #3
I really doubt they are even aware of trump's shredding, since the fox bubbles are selective what JohnSJ Feb 2022 #4
Kick. tanyev Feb 2022 #5

The Wizard

(12,482 posts)
2. As opposed to TFG
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 09:55 AM
Feb 2022

Hillary violated no federal laws. She followed the precedent set by her two predecessors . The law about preserving emails and other electronic communications was enacted after she was Secretary of State.
Feigned outrage and professional victimhood is in the GQP DNA.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
3. I will die angry what "they*" did to that good person, Hillary.
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 10:11 AM
Feb 2022

* TFG, Comey, people like Matt Lauer, the NYT, Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, all those Congressional
Republicans, the media, Fox & Rush, and dark money right wing shits. We would not be going through
this C-19 nightmare if she hadn't had the White House stolen from her.

And as to her email scandal she sat and answered every question for 11.5 hours and they found nothing
but TFG has so far refused to sit down and answer questions for one minute.

JohnSJ

(91,957 posts)
4. I really doubt they are even aware of trump's shredding, since the fox bubbles are selective what
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 10:42 AM
Feb 2022

they feed their sheep



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