this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
1122 points (96.8% liked)

People Twitter

5182 readers
1897 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

  1. Mark NSFW content.
  2. No doxxing people.
  3. Must be a tweet or similar
  4. No bullying or international politcs
  5. Be excellent to each other.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
1122
Donald emails (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Was trump found to be running a private email server for government classified business? Because that's what the issue with Hilary was. As much as I despise trump, the situation isn't equivalent. Also, WikiLeaks leaked Hillary's emails, not the media. Basically everything stated in the original post is incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nah, he just had a bunch of classified government documents stashed in a bathroom.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Which he should have gone to prison for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right, but that's not related to these emails as far as anyone knows.

If I recall that case was dismissed without prejudice, which means they can fix the bullshit issue Judge Cannon came up with to delay things, re-indict him and ideally convict his ass. Can't use executive privilege as a defense (no matter how strained) for shit you do after you leave office. That'll kick up a mountain of idiots on Xitter screaming about "double jeopardy" despite not knowing how any of that works though.

Assuming of course he doesn't get reelected and pardon himself or some equally absurd bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Not saying they're related to the emails directly, but it's a similar idea of storing important national information in secret where you aren't allowed.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Like I said to someone else here already:

False. The Clinton emails were first released under FOIA by the State Department, not by WikiLeaks. You're mixing it up with the Podesta and DNC email archives, which incidentally contained dirt on Trump as well.

Over the next several months, the State Department completed production of 30,068 emails, which were released in 14 batches, with the final batch released on February 29, 2016. Both the Wall Street Journal and WikiLeaks independently set up search engines for anyone who would like to search through the Clinton emails released by the State Department.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

If Trump knew how to use email, you know he'd be sending classified information from his yahoo account.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're correct about Wikileaks, but you are conflating the scandal around Hillary's emails (she maintained a private email server while she was Secretary of State, and deleted many of those emails when she was meant to retain them) with the Podesta emails (which the user in the image incorrectly identifies as Hillary's emails). The hacking of Podesta's emails is actually very similar to the hack of the Trump campaign, except there's no Wikileaks or equivalent organization willing to publish them this time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, okay. Then thanks for correcting me. There are too many fucked up shenanigans to keep track of these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Easy mistake, especially when it all gets conflated to, "But her emails!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Mmmm, buttery males....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LoL, for as much as you "despise trump", you sure feel compelled to "defend" him by creating your own false equivalence, getting the facts wrong, and by ignoring the entirety of actions Trump and his family committed while in office. It's almost like you don't really despise him at all...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm not defending him, I'm saying we need to be better. There are enough valid criticisms, like millions of them. We don't need to make false equivalencies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Eh, that's about par for the course at this point...