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‘But Her Emails!’: Trump Said Hillary Couldn’t Be Trusted with Classified Info — And Social Media Can’t Stop Laughing
“But her emails.”
Yes, we heard about the emails over and over and all those nefarious things that were deleted, including some emails that were classified, according to the FBI – but those emails were saved on the other end, and the information was never lost. We know because the FBI studied them.
And now here we are. It is almost fictional to think that the “Trump era” is perhaps ending (there is a long way to go) because Trump tucked some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets into his pocket to sell later on. Let’s be real. Trump didn’t have a fixation on technical details regarding any policy, never mind “nuclear” policy. Trump was and is, however, always fixated on money. Hence the nuclear documents taken to Mar-a-Lago almost surely intersect with a money line somewhere.
From Jack Holmes over at Esquire:
In 2016, Donald Trump ran as the candidate who would be the better steward of classified information. By his telling—and many others’—Hillary Clinton’s email protocol had proved she couldn’t be trusted with top-secret intel. Our best chance as a nation was to hand over the nuclear codes to the game show host with the fake foundation and the fake university and the fake life story of self-made success in Business.
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But keep in mind that the majority of Americans were not fooled. Almost three million more Americans voted for Hillary and Hillary has admitted since that she wasn’t the “most likable” candidate to go against Trump. Her campaign also made many mistakes (“deplorables,” you never put down voters, no matter how true).
Still:
By February 2017, you could find a random Mar-a-Lago member posting a picture to Facebook showing Trump reviewing possibly sensitive documents with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a table on the club’s back patio following a provocative North Korean missile launch. Opsec! White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the information wasn’t classified, and as we know you can take his word to the bank.
Before Trump was even sworn in, it was readily apparent to everyone that it was all just a big money-making television show to Trump. We knew the moment we heard that he was taking time out of his busy “Get Ready to Be President” schedule to do… rallies, we knew when Trump raised more money in history for his inauguration gala and spent… very little.
No one said [Trump would be the better keeper of secrets] explicitly, but they didn’t have to: the emails coverage was so deafening and constant—it got as much coverage in six days as actual policy issues did in 69—that the only reasonable takeaway for the kind of casual news consumer that makes up a huge part of the electorate was that anyone was more trustworthy than Hillary Clinton. In the relentless quest to show they were Tough On Both Sides, the mainstream media pitched Donald Trump for the job of Secrets Keeper. Unless it directly involves his self-preservation, he’s not an ideal candidate.
It is almost Shakespearean, with the tragic-comedy motif. We won’t know how “tragic” it is until we hear how much Trump gave away. Do the Saudis have all they need now to build their own nuclear program? We have absolutely no idea and won’t for years. We do know that Trump was elected almost solely upon the doubts Trump cast about Clinton’s responsibility and whether she’d play both sides of the fence.
Some of us were never fooled. Most of us.
And Twitter is having a field day:
After calling for Hillary to be jailed, in 2018 Trump signed a law that stiffened the penalty for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents from one year to five years, turning it into a felony offense. This is delicious! Thank you Donnie!
— Alicia (@Alicia0Givens) August 10, 2022
Republicans are responding to the Mar-a-Lago raid by attacking Hunter Biden, Hillary, the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland & even Robert Mueller… but have you noticed that not A SINGLE Republican has yet to deny that Trump stole the classified documents? It’s VERY telling…
— Omar Rivero (@OmarRiverosays) August 11, 2022
“Hillary’s private e-mail scandal, which put our classified information in the reach of our enemies, disqualifies her from the Presidency.”
— Donald Trump in 2016
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 10, 2022
Welcome to 2022, where the party that shouted “lock her up!’ over Hillary Clinton’s emails will now explain to us why Trump having classified documents about America’s nuclear weapons in a banker’s box in the storeroom of a wedding mill in Florida is no big deal.
— Bill Prady ⚛️ (@billprady) August 12, 2022
“Trump didn’t take any classified documents, the FBI planted them, but Trump also declassified the documents if they weren’t planted, and Hillary had 33,000 emails and Obama had 33,000,000 documents, so even if Trump did take classified documents it’s fine”
– Every Republican
— Treason Stickers (@treasonstickers) August 12, 2022
The allegations about Hillary’s emails were the MISHANDLING of classified information
The allegations about Trump are the THEFT of classified information
These things are not the same
— Brad Batt for TN State Sanity ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 (@bradbatt) August 12, 2022
"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find Donald Trump's missing classified documents. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
Just updating Trump's own words from 2016 about Hillary's emails#Espionage— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) August 12, 2022
2016-2022: Hillary Clinton must go to jail for keeping classified state department emails on insecure servers and private Blackberries
2022: Donald Trump needs those nuclear weapon briefings, cuck, and do YOU know a better place to keep them than the shelf in the Hibiscus Room?
— 18Hat793 (@Popehat) August 12, 2022
Donald Trump signed a law that strengthened the penalty for mishandling classified documents from 1 year in prison to 5 years and made it a felony in an attempt to punish Hillary Clinton. Now it can be used against him. Oops.
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 12, 2022
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