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There probably wasn't any way to avoid that. It was a Presidential election. The claim that Clinton was a criminal, and that the only explanation for why she wasn't being charged was political favoritism, was far too valuable for the Trump campaign and its surrogates to pass up. "Lock her up!" Indeed, it would have been political malpractice if they hadn't hammered that morning, noon and night. The only folks who could have done the right thing and effectively pushed back on that narrative would have been conservative media (not just Fox, but the constellation of other hosts and networks and talk radio and commentators with credibility in conservative circles). But it would have been commercial suicide for them to step out in front of that train and try to educate their listeners/viewers about what the law really says. Wasn't ever going to happen. - albaby
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That is an excellent observation. Politics aside, here is my take on Hillary's server and the larger issues of erosion of public confidence. Sorry in advance for the long post....
My disillusionment is not rooted in Trump's chant of 'lock her up'. It is that Clinton simply thumbed her nose at the rules (with NO consequences), specifically ignoring the requirement to conduct government business on a secure government server. The fact that some Republicans did that same thing back when is not an excuse. I believe that the old 'My guy's malfeasance is excusable because your guy is worse' excuse is simply a race to the bottom, if such a bottom can even be reached. In the context of Clinton's e-mail issue, I contrast Hillary's treatment to that poor sailor who was crushed for innocently taking a picture in his submarine.
I admit since I am conservative, I am more sensitive to apparent bias favoring Democrats more than Republicans but generally I would prefer they all get prosecuted. That is the only road to restoring trust in government and the rule of law.
If I got a subpoena to preserve all the files on my laptop and then deleted half them before giving it to law enforcement, I would expect to be prosecuted for non-compliance. Or more likely if law enforcement was convinced my laptop was likely to contain important evidence, they would conduct a raid and seize it, depriving me of the opportunity to wipe it (and not with a cloth). With Hillary, not so much.
In a significant case, if I filed a contrived document I knew to be false with the court, I should and would be prosecuted. With Comey, not so much.
And how about that cadre of Mueller lawyers who deleted all the data on their government issued Blackberries at the end of the investigation in violation of the 'law' or is it 'rules'.
Michael Flynn lying to the FBI, string him up, Bill Casey under oath, lying to Congress, crickets.
And on and on.
These laws that congress writes that define illegal behavior that is not criminal are toothless and pointless and need to be revised. That would go a long way in restoring regular citizens faith in government, if there were regular prosecutions rather than seeing politicians sidestepping on technicalities. And who knows, after a few dozen perp walks, maybe the bad behavior would diminish.
BTW, what about the lack of prosecutions emanating Jeffery Epstein's Pedophile Island? Politicized FBI, that's why. If not that, then what else explains it?
