FBI Director James Comey laid out the case that Hillary was not only negligent with her email server, but broke the law. He also said she was “extremely careless”, among other descriptions of what she did. Comey just decided to not recommend prosecution for someone who broke the law. Well, there’s really nothing we can do about this, as out nation becomes a Banana Republic, except politically. Namely, throwing the bums out.
Donald Trump took his time getting his response out, if you think six hours is too slow. He dropped two tweets post-announcement. Surrogate Sarah Palin did her insane attacking Republicans schtick. But, then, Team Trump came out with this video (via Hot Air)
Powerful, and one he should use again and again and again, and should develop it a bit further for use on TV.
He further had this statement
DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON HILLARY CLINTON’S BAD JUDGMENT AND THE RIGGED SYSTEM
The FBI Director laid out today a detailed case of how Hillary Clinton compromised the safety of the American people by storing highly classified information on a private email server with no security. He confirmed that her email could easily have been hacked by hostile actors, and confirmed that those she emailed with were hacked. (snip)
But because of our rigged system that holds the American people to one standard and people like Hillary Clinton to another, it does not look like she will be facing the criminal charges that she deserves. (snip)
Folks – the system is rigged. The normal punishment, in this case, would include losing authority to handle classified information, and that too disqualifies Hillary Clinton from being President.
The final jury will be the American people, and they will issue the verdict on her corruption, incompetence, and bad judgment on November 8th.
Yes, it will be. Will Trump take advantage of this correctly, and use it to woo people to his side, if not to vote for him, to vote against Hillary by checking Trump’s name on the ballot? Will he woo all those Republicans and Conservatives who voted for someone other than Trump during the primaries? We’ll see. Based on his previous patterns, he won’t stop attacking over this. But, we’ll see.
Oh, and even left leaning Chris Cillizza at left leaning Washington Post thinks Hillary did very bad things.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
I hate to criticize our FBI but Director Comey was flat wrong.
Clinton has steadfastly maintained that none of the emails sent or received on her private email server while Secretary of State were marked classified at the time. Comey claimed a “very small number†of her emails were in fact classified at the time. The New York Times determined that that there were two. The State Department has now says that the two emails in question weren’t actually classified at the time, but had been labeled incorrectly during the course of the FBI investigation.
Clinton has been fully exonerated, and the Director of the FBI fully embarrassed. His political attack on Clinton was unprecedented and he needs to step down.
Comey, a registered Republican, decided to use his official capacity to make a solely political speech denigrating a citizen just exonerated by the FBI, one has to consider that Comey’s objective was to deflect unjust criticism from the far-right and the Trump campaign. In any event, Comey’s speech was not a profile in courage but rather a profile in political cowardice. He should do the right thing and immediately resign.