From Clay Jones on his political cartoon “Hacking Hillary,” Hillary Clinton’s email server violations, and whether she is more dishonest than the Orange One
Right now, Hillary Clinton might prefer talking about Bill Clinton’s philandering than her email server.
A State Department watchdog issued a report that Hillary Clinton violated rules over her use of a private server. We all knew that. What we did not know was the extent of it.
Clinton claims she had approval to use her personal server, which was stored in her New York home’s basement. She didn’t. She claims she’s happy to talk to anyone at anytime about the issue, yet she declined to talk to the Inspector General during their investigation. Several of her aides also declined, with one not even responding to the request.
John Bentel, director of the Office of Information Resources Management, declined to be interviewed during the investigation. When a staffer raised concerns that Hillary’s email violated rules, he told the staffer never to speak of it again. It’s like Fight Club over at the State Department.
It’s so much like Fight Club that only a few people were even aware Clinton was using a private server. She refused to use a State email and even refused to release her email address to the State Department. The senior officials outside of her privileged circle who became aware of her private email, only became aware because her emails to them originated from a rotating cluster of private clintonemail.com addresses. That sounds more like the habit of a drug dealer buying a new cell phone and number at Walmart every week.
Clinton claims her server was safe from hackers, but it turns out there were several attempts to break into her email. Clinton didn’t report these attempts to the State Department and apparently took them about as seriously as those emails from that Nigerian prince (Nigeria is not a monarchy, by the way).
It is extremely difficult for a presidential candidate to fight the perception of being dishonest by being dishonest. It also gives Donald Trump more leeway to use the nickname “Crooked Hillary” even though he doesn’t really understand the issue.
Now with all this bad stuff, what does this mean for Clinton? It means she violated a rule, and that’s really it, legally. This isn’t a criminal offense. It’s a stupid offense. You can use this to determine whether you should vote for her or not. I would rather live with Clinton’s dishonesty than Trump’s. At least Clinton knows what she’s lying about.
Yes, the State Department’s email system is extremely convoluted and inept. Yes, other Secretaries had personal emails, but the rules change every few years. Blackberries weren’t in widespread use during Colin Powell’s tenure (did they even exist at the time?), and Condoleeza Rice claims she never used email, which I find amazing (I have only one friend who’s not on any social media, and even he emails, though it’s a real pain explaining Twitter, hashtags, and trending to him. I’m not even gonna attempt to explain “poking”).
Most of the people who will use this EmailGate brouhaha are like Donald Trump, and they don’t really understand it. It is complex, and conservatives don’t do well with intricacies. While there isn’t any criminal-level transgression here, the larger issue is Clinton’s candor.
I don’t really care about her emails or server. I do care about the honesty. I believe she’s evasive with answers because she doesn’t believe she should be bothered with the questions. Trump lies because he’s pathological and actually believes his lies and that he’s still in the business of selling steaks, even while he’s replacing the food mart labels with Trump labels. Trump is likely to tell us he’s 20 feet tall and believe that he’s 20 feet tall and that we should all go fact check it. When you ask him about it tomorrow, he’ll talk about Monica Lewinsky or refer to Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas.
Hillary Clinton will be president. There will be more dishonesty. There will be scandals, which will be a huge change after the scandal-free Obama administration (yes, you wingnuts. Scandal-free). Bill Clinton will break something. But a Hillary Clinton presidency will not destroy the nation like a Donald Trump presidency will. I would vote for Mitt Romney and that agenda of everything I’m against before I could poison my nation with the buffoonery of Donald Trump.
Your issues in this presidential election may be emails, Benghazi, or Bill Clinton’s greatest sexcapades of the 1990s. The biggest and most dangerous issue is Donald Trump. You should email this blog and cartoon to one of his supporters.
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My only issue in this presidential election is who is on the ballot.
If one is Donald Trump I will vote for the other one.
“Independent”, you say … lem’me tell’ya … for him, invent a new word … if you were to look up “bristly” in the dictionary, you might see his picture! …