Hi, Shrewd!        Login  
Shrewd'm.com 
A merry & shrewd investing community
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd
Search
Shrewd'm.com Merry shrewd investors
Search
Best Of PoliticsBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd


The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
Answer this questionContinue to Shrewd'mThis note won't appear again
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (54) |
Author: albaby1 SILVER
SHREWD
  😊 😞

Number: of 84359 
Subject: Re: Trump on Tape w/ Classified Docs
Date: 06/02/23 11:11 AM
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 9
She still was using a non-governmental email and was receiving classified information on it (which is an FOIA violation). Whoever sent it to her there is also is a felon.

She's still guilty of the rest of it. That's beyond question.


The "rest of it" isn't a crime, though. Which is the real reason she wasn't charged. FOIA violations aren't criminal. Many violations of procedures for handling classified information aren't criminal. The violations that are crimes require certain specific elements to be present, which elements weren't present here - for example, as we've discussed, to violate Section 1924 it is not enough to possess classified materials in an unauthorized location, but you have to have been the one who removed them from their initial location in the first place.

That's why Clinton wasn't charged with a crime. She didn't commit one. That's why Trump hasn't been charged with violating Section 1924. He didn't commit that crime.

If Trump is charged with a crime, it will almost certainly be based on a violation of the statutes that make it a crime not to give the classified material back, and because he tried to conceal his refusal to return the material from the government. Not simply because he had classified material in a place he wasn't supposed to.

That's why the situations are different, and why noting that Trump violated a criminal statute is not fitting a jail cell for Biden or Clinton.
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
Print the post
Members reply directly to albaby1 here — and replies get answered. Reading is free; so is joining the conversation. Join Shrewd'm »
This community has written 84,309 posts about US Policy. The article-length ones it recommended most:
It's going to get worse · 33 recs · 2025
G’day Donny · 30 recs · 2026
Old Related Story · 28 recs · 2026
HCR is a national treasure · 27 recs · 2025
Fascism in America · 27 recs · 2025
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (54) |


Announcements
US Policy FAQ
Contact Shrewd'm
Contact the developer of these message boards.

Best Of Politics | Best Of | Favourites & Replies | All Boards | Followed Shrewds | Open Questions | Moving a community