It's not a witch hunt if your own people are telling on you!
Donald Trump
President of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Soon after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate, former President Donald Trump posted a statement decrying the "weaponization of the justice system." He called the search "political targeting at the highest level," and contrasted what was happening to him with what happened to his 2016 Democratic opponent.
"Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 emails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress," Trump said Aug. 8 on his social media platform, Truth Social. "Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable."
LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! Whats good for the goose.......
In the 2016 presidential campaign, chants of "lock her up, lock her up" were regular features at Trump rallies.
Hilary was never charged!
While she was never charged, Clinton’s use of a private email account for exchanges with her staff during her time as secretary of state drew an FBI investigation.
DOJ bent over backwards for trump to return the stolen Nuclear Secrets!
Now, according to news accounts, the Justice Department is probing Trump and the classified documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago after he left office. The Justice Department has not responded to questions about the search, so we don’t know what, if anything, was removed from the property.
We explore the legal risks Trump faces in a related article. Here, we ask, how do the Clinton and Trump situations compare?
Clinton’s emails
Clinton’s email troubles started in 2014, when the House Select Committee on Benghazi asked the State Department for all of her emails. The department didn’t have them all because, instead of only using the State Department email system (with an email address ending in @state.gov), Clinton used a personal email address (@clintonemail.com) housed on private servers located in her Chappaqua, New York, home.
In 2014, Clinton’s lawyers combed through the private server and turned over about 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department and deleted the rest, which Clinton said involved personal matters, such as her daughter’s wedding plans.
Clinton Docs were there thru carelessness not criminal intenet!
The FBI issued its findings in July 2016. Broadly, it said classified information had been improperly transmitted, but carelessness, not an intent to skirt the law, was the cause. The issue began to fade, but it resurfaced at the end of October 2016, right before the election. Many believe that in a razor-thin election, that timing torpedoed her campaign.
Trump’s documents
The details of the warrant behind the search of Trump’s residence remain unclear. We do know that Trump crossed swords with the National Archives when it was learned that he had taken official records with him when he left the White House. The Presidential Records Act requires that everything go to the archives.
The head of the National Archives, David Ferriero, told the House Oversight and Reform Committee in February that his agency had recovered 15 boxes of presidential records from Mar-a-Lago. Ferriero said they had "identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes."
Trump used nonofficial electronic messaging accounts!
In an echo of Clinton’s email practices, Ferriero also said "some White House staff conducted official business using nonofficial electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts, as required by section 2209 of the Presidential Records Act."
In 2018, about halfway through Trump’s presidency, the National Archives learned that Trump was tearing up documents, another breach of the rules. They contacted the White House counsel’s office, and matters improved.
"White House staff were attempting to tape them back together," Ferriero told the House committee. "Although White House staff during the Trump administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records, a number of other torn-up records that were transferred had not been reconstructed by the White House."
It is unclear from Ferriero’s letter if documents torn up before the National Archives intervened were retained. Trump said his staff had been cooperating with the National Archives at the time of the raid.
A key difference between the two
Bradley Moss, a Washington-based lawyer who works on national security cases, said the cases of Clinton and Trump are significantly different.
"Trump took properly marked hard copy classified documents from the White House, shipped them to Florida, and stored them in an unsecured location at his residence," Moss said.
The presence of classified information in Clinton’s emails was less obvious.
"The e-mails were never marked as classified because these were communications from unclassified government accounts," Moss said.
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Donald Trump
President of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Soon after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate, former President Donald Trump posted a statement decrying the "weaponization of the justice system." He called the search "political targeting at the highest level," and contrasted what was happening to him with what happened to his 2016 Democratic opponent.
"Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 emails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress," Trump said Aug. 8 on his social media platform, Truth Social. "Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable."
LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! Whats good for the goose.......
In the 2016 presidential campaign, chants of "lock her up, lock her up" were regular features at Trump rallies.
Hilary was never charged!
While she was never charged, Clinton’s use of a private email account for exchanges with her staff during her time as secretary of state drew an FBI investigation.
DOJ bent over backwards for trump to return the stolen Nuclear Secrets!
Now, according to news accounts, the Justice Department is probing Trump and the classified documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago after he left office. The Justice Department has not responded to questions about the search, so we don’t know what, if anything, was removed from the property.
We explore the legal risks Trump faces in a related article. Here, we ask, how do the Clinton and Trump situations compare?
Clinton’s emails
Clinton’s email troubles started in 2014, when the House Select Committee on Benghazi asked the State Department for all of her emails. The department didn’t have them all because, instead of only using the State Department email system (with an email address ending in @state.gov), Clinton used a personal email address (@clintonemail.com) housed on private servers located in her Chappaqua, New York, home.
In 2014, Clinton’s lawyers combed through the private server and turned over about 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department and deleted the rest, which Clinton said involved personal matters, such as her daughter’s wedding plans.
Clinton Docs were there thru carelessness not criminal intenet!
The FBI issued its findings in July 2016. Broadly, it said classified information had been improperly transmitted, but carelessness, not an intent to skirt the law, was the cause. The issue began to fade, but it resurfaced at the end of October 2016, right before the election. Many believe that in a razor-thin election, that timing torpedoed her campaign.
Trump’s documents
The details of the warrant behind the search of Trump’s residence remain unclear. We do know that Trump crossed swords with the National Archives when it was learned that he had taken official records with him when he left the White House. The Presidential Records Act requires that everything go to the archives.
The head of the National Archives, David Ferriero, told the House Oversight and Reform Committee in February that his agency had recovered 15 boxes of presidential records from Mar-a-Lago. Ferriero said they had "identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes."
Trump used nonofficial electronic messaging accounts!
In an echo of Clinton’s email practices, Ferriero also said "some White House staff conducted official business using nonofficial electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts, as required by section 2209 of the Presidential Records Act."
In 2018, about halfway through Trump’s presidency, the National Archives learned that Trump was tearing up documents, another breach of the rules. They contacted the White House counsel’s office, and matters improved.
"White House staff were attempting to tape them back together," Ferriero told the House committee. "Although White House staff during the Trump administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records, a number of other torn-up records that were transferred had not been reconstructed by the White House."
It is unclear from Ferriero’s letter if documents torn up before the National Archives intervened were retained. Trump said his staff had been cooperating with the National Archives at the time of the raid.
A key difference between the two
Bradley Moss, a Washington-based lawyer who works on national security cases, said the cases of Clinton and Trump are significantly different.
"Trump took properly marked hard copy classified documents from the White House, shipped them to Florida, and stored them in an unsecured location at his residence," Moss said.
The presence of classified information in Clinton’s emails was less obvious.
"The e-mails were never marked as classified because these were communications from unclassified government accounts," Moss said.
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