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Originally Posted by RedFred
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I am not a Hillary fan by any stretch of imagination, but I never understood how much Republicans hated her. They had a dozen investigations into her, and all of them never had even had a crime attached to them.
With the email server... What crime was committed? There is no law against a public official running their government email through their own personal server. It might seem odd to the general public, but it turns out this was routine.... This was common at the State Department - past Secretaries of State used a similar system - and members of Congress have also used similar systems. It was not a crime to do this, and it still isn't a crime to do this.
With Benghazi.... What crime was she accused of? The State Department isn't in charge of Embassy security - The Department Of Defense is. In fact, the United States Marines are the ones with boots on the ground. I think the world of United States Marines, but two dozen lightly armed Marines cannot fend off hundreds of people for long. The Secretary Of State cannot order the military to invade another country to protect an embassy - that's an act of war. Even if the President wanted to do this, it would have been too little too late. We had a quick reaction force in Italy, but... By the time we learned of the attack, got details of the attack and came up with a plan, and gave them marching orders... The attack was over. So what we would charge Hillary with? Failure to make a decision she cannot legally make?
All of this was hype. And it worked. They are still doing it. They are still investigating Hillary. In fact, I think they are investigating the people who investigated her. Whatever.
Meanwhile, we have a serious investigation where we are accusing a sitting US president of directly colluding with a foreign government into rigging a US election and.... People are going to jail. Dozens of people have been indicted. It took six years to finish Watergate and over sixty people were indicted. This investigation is just two years in and we have dozens indicted. This investigation is just getting started.
But whatever. There is nothing to see here, right?