bighairymike: albaby certainly is credible as he explains the criteria but the fact that Clinton avoided any sanction for what she did with her private server and the rest of it is a BIG reason regular folks have lost confidence in our system of justice.

People have lost confidence in government institutions because that was all part of the Trump con.

Before Clinton, according to the state department, both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, America's top diplomats under president George W Bush, were sent sensitive national security information to nongovernment email addresses.

After Trump was elected, Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and daughter Ivanka Trump, both advisers to the president, had used either personal email accounts or the messaging application WhatsApp to conduct official government business. By using WhatsApp, messages were encrypted between users and there was no way to record what was said in those official government conversations.

Kushner's attorney refused to say whether classified information had ever been discussed on WhatApp. IOW, yes.

Former deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland and former adviser Stephen K. Bannon had also, at times, used personal email accounts for official business, including using AOL to share a proposal to send nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.

Other Trump administration officials, including adviser Stephen Miller, former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former National Economic Council director Gary Cohn had all used personal email accounts to conduct official business.

As someone (or many others) have correctly pointed out: half of the people who ever worked in government would have to be prosecuted for using unofficial communication devices (including Trump, who refused to use secure government-issued phones).

Trump got voters to chant "Lock Her Up!" and made her email an issue because he's a con man and he's been a con man his entire life. Unfortunately for those of us who saw through the con, we've had to suffer through the election of the most criminal, anti-American president in history... and likely watch millions of people fall for yet another similar con in 2024.

Like the con man said, "I love the poorly educated."

theguardian.com - Colin powell condoleezza rice private email accounts classified hillary clinton

washingtonpost.com - Their emails seven members trumps team have used unofficial communications tools

politico.eu - Hillary clinton donald trump jared kushner private email calls use of private email height of hypocrisy