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BlueIdaho

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28. Anything that can put the Clintons in a headline...

Reply to Jon King (Reply #12)

Thu Sep 16, 2021, 07:52 PM

Sep 2021

Is raw meat for the GQP. My understanding mirrors yours Jon - that this is not a significant misstatement of fact, but the sort of thing that usually doesn’t rise to a chargeable offense. If Durham’s authority weren’t expiring on Saturday and the Clintons weren’t somehow loosely connected this never would have been handed up.

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