Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

liberal N proud

(60,339 posts)
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 06:52 AM Aug 2016

6 Rebuttals To The GOP War Cry Of ‘Hillary Clinton Is A Criminal’

Since she began her bid, we have heard the Republicans saying that the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is corrupt. We have especially heard a lot about her email servers. When Hillary Clinton epically told the orange wonder, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, that he should delete his Twitter account, all he could do was ask about the deleted emails.

Despite the FBI not charging Clinton, the Republicans still whine about the emails. Donald Trump even went so far as to ask the Russians to hack her email server.













In her defense, Mrs. Clinton is not the corrupt criminal everyone makes her out to be. I’ll debunk some of the lies that have been spreading about her.

1. She Caused The Death Of Captain Humayun Khan

The Khan family spoke up against Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention; their son, Humayun Khan, died in Iraq in 2004. Donald Trump spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson made the ridiculous claim that Clinton caused their son’s death. This was five years before President Barack Obama was elected, and five years before Hillary Clinton was appointed as the Secretary of State.

2. The Emails!

The FBI decided not to press charges against Clinton for using a private email server. Two of the 55,000 emails were actually marked classified. They were wrongly marked and not actually classified. She used multiple servers for business and private emails.

FBI Director James Comey said that criminal charges would’ve been filed if she had “intentionally transmitted or willfully mishandled classified information.” She messed up by putting it on a private server, but she didn’t intentionally send any classified information. There were some classified emails in the mix, but they were not classified at the time.

Classified information sometimes doesn’t get marked that way right away. Someone needs to identify them as classified. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) admitted to faking the emails to make Clinton look guilty. He lied and wasted taxpayer money to conduct this witch hunt against her.

She has been cleared of wrongdoing, and she said she won’t store any information on private servers again. If that’s the only argument that Republicans have, then their stance is pretty weak. We can’t explore the legality of the emails without mentioning the multiple Benghazi investigations and how the GOP has tried to tie the two supposed ‘crimes’ to one another.

3. Benghazi

This is another one the GOP has been going on about for the entire election period and long before. They say that Hillary Clinton is responsible for the people who died in the Benghazi Embassy attack. There is an 800-page report that proved that Clinton did nothing wrong. She was not responsible for the deaths of those people.

There was also wasted a lot of taxpayer money on this witch hunt as well ($7 million). One of our Liberal America writers, Darrell Lucas, reported this about Gowdy back in May:

“Gowdy has effectively admitted that this “investigation” is completely illegitimate. If he has anything left in him, he will end this witch hunt and end it now. Let Gowdy know what you think on Facebook and on Twitter. And feel free to use the hashtag “#TreyShutItDown.”


The rest at the link: http://www.liberalamerica.org/2016/08/07/hillary-clinton-criminal-rebuttal/

3 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
6 Rebuttals To The GOP War Cry Of ‘Hillary Clinton Is A Criminal’ (Original Post) liberal N proud Aug 2016 OP
My rebuttal to the types calling her a criminal: "Oh shut the fuck up." nt geek tragedy Aug 2016 #1
that's pretty much the only thing they understand FoxNewsSucks Aug 2016 #3
My response is get back to me when someone from Shrub's administration goes to kairos12 Aug 2016 #2

FoxNewsSucks

(10,434 posts)
3. that's pretty much the only thing they understand
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 08:59 AM
Aug 2016

Teabagging rightists don't acknowledge proven fact, and it's a waste of time and breath to say much more. I have completely lost any patience with them.

The only time I'll set them straight these days is if it's in public and there are other people around who will overhear the facts, and may learn something from hearing the ubiquitous rightwing talking points debunked.

If no one else is around, then yeah, STFU.

kairos12

(12,865 posts)
2. My response is get back to me when someone from Shrub's administration goes to
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 07:45 AM
Aug 2016

jail for lying us into a war, being asleep at the swtich before 9/11, or having a hand in crashing the economy.

Latest Discussions»Retired Forums»2016 Postmortem»6 Rebuttals To The GOP Wa...