She and Bill have been incredibly astute. There has probably not been their equal since the Borgias.
And if they weren't so blatant about it, people likely wouldn't get bothered. The US has been big into Sunshine Laws, which require transparency to ostensibly prevent corruption. The whole email thing, was just one way to get around such laws - and they are federal laws.
It then ties into the pay-for-play for Bill's foundation: did they trade favors for contributions? There is a great deal of circumstantial evidence, and then the Wikileaks stuff. When you delete tens of thousands of emails of a non-secured account, when by law you shouldn't have said account, it raises a lot of questions.
If they are innocent of it all, they really made their life so much worse by choosing their own convenience (and arrogance) over the relative simplicity of following pretty basic rules.
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And if they weren't so blatant about it, people likely wouldn't get bothered. The US has been big into Sunshine Laws, which require transparency to ostensibly prevent corruption. The whole email thing, was just one way to get around such laws - and they are federal laws.
It then ties into the pay-for-play for Bill's foundation: did they trade favors for contributions? There is a great deal of circumstantial evidence, and then the Wikileaks stuff. When you delete tens of thousands of emails of a non-secured account, when by law you shouldn't have said account, it raises a lot of questions.
If they are innocent of it all, they really made their life so much worse by choosing their own convenience (and arrogance) over the relative simplicity of following pretty basic rules.
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You've got a pumpkin for an icon
And we bats are building a wall to keep you bad hombres out.
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And we bats are building a wall to keep you bad hombres out.
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I don't want to intrude on this debate but I think it's abundantly clear that Trump has a track record of supporting pumpkins
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It's interesting that Wikileaks has been conducting a campaign to try to smear Clinton,
with the kind of evidence which might usually scupper a presidential candidate's chances, and it has all just bounced off because only people voting for Trump actually care about that.
Because clearly very few people are actually FOR Clinton, they're mostly just against Trump.
She could probably kick a puppy live on CNN stating "I'm only doing this to see if most of you still hate Trump more than me!" and she'd still be better presidential material than Trump.
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with the kind of evidence which might usually scupper a presidential candidate's chances, and it has all just bounced off because only people voting for Trump actually care about that.
Because clearly very few people are actually FOR Clinton, they're mostly just against Trump.
She could probably kick a puppy live on CNN stating "I'm only doing this to see if most of you still hate Trump more than me!" and she'd still be better presidential material than Trump.
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I've always thought that had Assange and Snowden done the exact same thing under GW Bush or any other republican president they'd be hailed as heroes.
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