Subject: Trump vs Clinton
Here's a little comparison of the documents issue with respect to former secretary of state Clinton and former president Trump. But first, a clean-up of the drone strike information that Dope1 is so obsessed with: an email in one chain forwarded a front-page New York Times story about a drone strike which the CIA said that, under its rules, was classified information.
A front-page New York Times story.
CLINTON TRUMP
113 emails NARA retrieved 184
contained classified information classified documents on
January 17
92 secret, 25 top secret
3 of those emails were Trump attorneys returned
(incorrectly) marked classified 38 classified documents
on June 3
16 secret, 17 top secret
FBI found 103 classified
documents on August 8
54 secret, 18 top secret
The FBI said that Clinton should have recognized that some of the 113 emails were classified, but others she might have understandably missed. In 2018, a Justice Department report found that the classification markings were not clear (the documents in the emails were not marked at all or were incorrectly marked).
Also of note: when classified information was clearly involved, Clinton's "briefings were on a different system, a classified Blackberry that was managed by State Department IT people."
On the campaign trail, Trump said Clinton was "guilty as hell".
When Trump was president it was discovered that "some White House staff conducted official business using nonofficial electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts, as required by section 2009 of the Presidential Records Act."
Gee.
In 2018, about halfway through Trump's presidency, the National Archives learned that Trump was tearing up official documents.
Huh.
So, Clinton had emails with classified information within them (although incorrectly marked or not marked classified) while Trump took properly marked hard copy classified documents from the White House, shipped them to Florida, and stored them at his personal residence in unsecured locations.
Finally, had Trump simply returned the documents to NARA when asked to do so, he would have had zero legal jeopardy, just as the FBI and IG determined for Clinton and which was announced today for Pence (and very likely for Biden, as well).
What's the over/under on whether the $2 billion Kushner money and the multi-million dollar LIV-Trump golf deal can be traced to the missing Iran invasion document?