2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum6 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. Ill 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 sons 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 wouldve been filed if she had intentionally transmitted or willfully mishandled classified information. She messed up by putting it on a private server, but she didnt intentionally send any classified information. There were some classified emails in the mix, but they were not classified at the time.
Classified information sometimes doesnt 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 wont store any information on private servers again. If thats the only argument that Republicans have, then their stance is pretty weak. We cant 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/
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)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)jail for lying us into a war, being asleep at the swtich before 9/11, or having a hand in crashing the economy.