Re: Clinton Campaign Suggests DNC Email Leak Is Vast Russian Conspiracy To Elect Trum
I'm sorry eohrnberger...but that is what Trump said and implicated. Its irrelevant that her server has been dismantled...it's the fact that he thought her server could be hacked and called for a foreign government to do it and find her deleted emails and then publish them...classified emails and all. Trump was inciting a foreign power to commit espionage against an American citizen. That is a helluva lot more serious crime than the mishandling a few retroactively classified emails, imo.
"it's the fact that he thought her server could be hacked"
Please establish this as fact and not conjecture, and maybe you'll have the beginnings of a stronger position / argument.
Until then, you are definitely left with a weak position / argument.
"Trump was inciting a foreign power to commit espionage against an American citizen."
He most certainly did not. Where in his statement did he incite anyone to hack anything? He was asking for copies of the emails. That's not inciting espionage by any measure. Asking for copies of emails that had presumably already been obtained isn't inciting espionage, it's asking for copies.
Given his presser statement and his follow up twitter, he's asking for copies of the emails to be turned over to the FBI. Quite proper, turning over stolen goods and materials to the proper authorities, if you think about it.
The campaign calls it a sarcastic remark. Fine.
"That is a helluva lot more serious crime than the mishandling a few retroactively classified emails"
Establish as a fact that the missing government emails that Hillary deleted, without proper authorization to do so, were in fact not classified information.
A fact as to the content of those emails is that we do know is that we don't know what those emails contained.
A fact that we also know is that all the emails on her server were handled carelessly, and quite possibly criminally recklessly (depending on who you ask).
A fact that we also know is that these were government emails, as they were sent and received, along with all the other government emails Hillary sent and received while Hillary was in the State Deparment's employment. This makes them government owned emails, and the government has a people and procedures with which they are classified as pertinent government records or not.
An additional fact is that Hillary did not have authority to make this email classification decision, she illegally took that authority.
Another fact is that Hillary did not have the authority to delete these government owned emails.
Now given all of the above, who's a greater threat to national security? Who has put nation security in jeopardy?
Sorry Moot, but you are wrong on this one.