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For Her Lies Only
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
Trump’s latest statement on the subject of Hillary’s missing emails elicited little more from me than the standard eye-roll that greets much of his more off-the-cuff and “un-presidential” blustering. The response from the Clinton camp, however, made me sit up and take notice:
“This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. That’s not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue.” (emphasis mine)
But wait . . . those 30,000 missing emails, the only ones which Trump has expressed an interest in getting unearthed by any means, have been dismissed on more than one occasion by Herself, thusly:
“In going through the emails, there were over 60,000 in total, sent and received. About half were work-related and went to State Department, and about half were personal that were not in any way related to my work. . . . At the end, I chose not to keep my private, personal emails. Emails about planning Chelsea’s wedding or my mother’s funeral arrangements. Condolence notes to friends, as well as yoga routines, family vacations: the other things you typically find in inboxes. No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.”
Certainly, the unearthing and publishing of someone’s most personal correspondence would be an invasion of privacy, but Hillary didn’t rail about a potential invasion of privacy. She threw out terms like “espionage” and “national security issue” in response to a call for discovery of documents she previously dismissed as being so completely innocuous that she could imperiously choose to delete them herself, sans oversight. So I’m having trouble understanding just how those same “personal” documents could possibly affect “national security” now.
Unless, of course, she’s finally admitting that a lot more might have gone missing in that preemptive data dump than condolence notes, wedding plans and yoga routines.
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Excellent observations. Your only flaw is expecting something approaching logic from the DNC or the Clinton camp.
I love your third tag too, by the way.
Ha.
OH, that’s a different translation – – funny, though, it certainly fits with some of my darker thoughts, at times, where that felonious harridan is concerned.
I actually chose the tag based on this pic:
Yeah that was supremely dumb of the Clinton campaign. I doubt it was intentional on Trump’s part but she walked right into that one and face planted.
Oh, I think it was very possibly intentional.
For my part, I would much rather hear a presidential candidate tell Vladimir Putin or anyone else interested that our elections are none of their business whatsoever. But I admit it did what it was supposed to do.
Clinton’s bad enough at this that she really could lose.
We all know which were the truly Classified E-mails and where the National Security lied. When you are the State how can it not be so.
I don’t know. Every once in a while a couple of wires get crossed in that dementia addled noggin, make a connection, and some obscure coherent thought is transmitted from the always on speaker.
Very good, Kel.
It’s bizarre that a statement that Trump made to ask the Russians to find the missing 30,000 emails is being highlighted by all the mainstream press – it’s laughable – the server was destroyed, the emails missing – by who? Hilary. Then came the lies, “I don’t have any classified emails nor did I send any”, I turned everything over, I deleted personal emails only, I am not “technically savvy so I only wanted one device” and on and on and on – all lies. Trump probably made it in jest, because the Russians and God only knows who else, have hacked us many times and visa versa. She did not seem to think it was any big deal!! They wanted to take the attention away from that fact as well as the DNC leak from Wikileaks. Yet the media and the Democrats will miss the obvious and defend the misdeeds on the part of Hilary.
I think this the first time since Johnson was in office that dems are concerned about the Russians.
No. They will provide cover and misdirection.
Good call, ref.
Ha!
That’s actually very funny.
How many people said that the government should send something to bin Laden via FedEx because they could find anyone. :)
Aannnndddd another shoe drops….
Oh . . . break out the popcorn.
Just because I find it difficult to say anything nice about Mr. Trump most of the time, I’m going to choose to believe that it was intentional, and also brilliant.
It just didn’t sound planned to me, but then again nothing Trump has said sounds planned and he keeps rollin.
The thing about it too, is that the server has been in FBI possession for a year now. The Russians ain’t gonna hack it now because it’s sitting in some evidence room, not connected to the internet. It’s not like the Ruskies are gonna break into that to see if the FBI has managed to undelete any of the emails that they’d already hacked earlier.
Good grief yes! It was a joke, not a job offer!
Mostly the Democrats are POed that they got pranked, and their egos won’t let them move on.
They need a 5 minute timeout in their safe spaces.
Eric Hines
This line made me laugh.
Thanks for bringing up the idea of Hillary Clinton doing Yoga in yoga pants…time to wash my mind out with soap…
You know, when I wrote this, I’d just come home from work, flipped on the tv and the first thing I saw was the local news reporting on the two statements. I had no idea at that time that there were people who were seriously tossing around the word “treason” to describe Trump’s comment. But later, I heard at least two convention commentators say as much.
Amazing, isn’t it? What strict interpreters of every last syllable of every single statute leftists become when they desperately need to vilify somebody? And yet, all is excused, extenuating circumstances found and laws are re-written and reinterpreted live, right before our eyes, when they need to find a way to worm out of indicting their Golden Girl.
“The constitution of the United States, art. 3, s. 3, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war (q.v.) against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort.”
Aside from the fact that there’s no mention in the statute, above, of “giving our enemies a sarcastic, figurative, high-five”, how could any overture at all to the Russians be considered giving aid or comfort to our “enemies” when our own Commander in Chief made it clear during the last election that only an idiot, living in the past, could possibly believe that Russia was an enemy of ours?
I’m still not a fan but I have to admire how he played the media like a fiddle today.
Being on the left means never having to apologize for being incoherent.
Great points, but about this let’s be clear . . . the only thing they are really trying to do—the only thing they ever do when caught out— is change the subject. In this instance, vilification of someone else is their ticket. A few days ago, the point was “the Russians released the emails to help Trump!” As if that mattered one iota . . . it was the content of the emails, not the chain of custody that mattered.
The Left Wing Media (yes, a redundancy) slobbers all over itself as it earns the DNC’s Useful Idiocy Award for service as Agents of Distraction.
https://youtu.be/lXk4E_LS33Q
This is a news clip where the voicemail hacks are discussed. The glee is barely contained.
The whole over the top reaction to Trump is going to elicit an even more funny and biting riposte.
Power is slipping from her fingers. Expect the unexpected. It is going to be a show.
It was a calculated move and here’s why he did it. By directly invoking the Russians himself, he takes the oxygen out of the Left’s conspiracy mongering, poor-victimized-Hillary, they’re-picking-on-a-girl narrative. Good move by Team Trump.