Please prove this. I've seen this narrative propped up by the press and Trump supporters, but I don't recall this happening. I remember Dems being upset Comey had a press conference at all. He then dragged her for the whole conference, before absolving her. Dems were glad it was over and glad Comey didnt get anymore political. On the other hand, republicans were straight up cheering for comey up until he absolved her, then immediately called into question his judgment and loyalties. The dems took Comey's side because of these attacks. Now they're back to applauding him.
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Please prove this. I've seen this narrative propped up by the press and Trump supporters, but I don't recall this happening. I remember Dems being upset Comey had a press conference at all. He then dragged her for the whole conference, before absolving her. Dems were glad it was over and glad Comey didnt get anymore political. On the other hand, republicans were straight up cheering for comey up until he absolved her, then immediately called into question his judgment and loyalties. The dems took Comey's side because of these attacks. Now they're back to applauding him.
Silent Chief
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How does that fit with trying to decide if the emails are classified or not?
According to NBC news the FBI haven't been able to read the emails yet. So they don't know the contents.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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orthodoxy1095
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I don't think it does. If it has something to do with weiner and huma that's where my money would be. Maybe such interactions were on Hillary's private server?
Spike Spiegel
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Heard the same thing today from coworkers as well. That, and that record numbers of people are lining up around the block in early voting precincts to vote for Trump because they want change from Obama and Crooked Hillary, and that one woman who voted early had her vote changed from Trump to Hillary but caught the switch and told officials, the Democrats are trying to steal it now that Hillary's being investigated again.
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I live in a Trump state, so I just walk on by.
elrechazado
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There is no mechanism to delay the outcome or fight the result. They can try to make political hay before, and they can investigate after she wins if they want to, and probably will continue to do both regardless of whether this happened or not.
Michael F. Assbender
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A presidential candidate bragging about finger-fucking women without consent seems somewhat more deserving of non-stop coverage than some email that may or may not be related to a closed case about emails.
Maybe it's just me though.
They're "investigating" because it involves her email server. This release gives no implication anyone is expected of doing anything wrong whatsoever. Theories about cover-ups at this point in time are entirely baseless.
i stand corrected. some dems were also copied. lot of places just didn't publish that second page originally.
I'd see your point if you believe both scenarios are comparable.
streetsahead123
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Video emerges of Trump talking about assaulting women, 12 women subsequently accuse him of assault, he denies it and insults the accusers, and we're done talking about it two weeks later.
Clinton is carless with an e-mail server, is investigated and cleared, apologizes, and we're still talking about it two years later.
But it's totally the lesser of two evils, guys. /s
Clinton is carless with an e-mail server, is investigated and cleared, apologizes, and we're still talking about it two years later.
But it's totally the lesser of two evils, guys. /s
maquiladora
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I really don't think it's anything like that.
I think it's either:
(a) Possible statements in Huma's emails that contradict Huma's testimony.
(b) Possible significant statements in Huma's emails that relate to Hillary's email server.
If there are thousands of emails to check then this will probably take a while and nothing significant will probably come of it at the end anyway....
Angry Grimace
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That has nothing to do with the previous investigation.
If this were the 1690s and Hillary lived in Salem, she would have already been burned as a witch. These people hate her, beyond hate maybe, loathe. They will not be satisfied until she comes to an end one way or another. I really wish they would reflect a little and maybe figure out why they feel so strongly about it. No, it's not emails. Being careless with confidential information does not incite these kind of feelings of hate.
elrechazado
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Hillary For America released a video defending Director Comey.
President Obama said that Director Comey could not have been more exhaustive.
Congressman Elijah Cummings said that Director Comey was the epitome of what a public servant is all about.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called Director Comey a a great man.
I was referring to posts around here though, and am on mobile so i won't go searching for them, but I've seen dozens of such exchanges here, where appeal to authority (comeys finding of no evidence existing to prosecute) is presented as a rebuttal to anyone seeming to find merit in the email issue.
I'm voting for Hillary, so I have no dog in the fight beyond being able to step back and find the tribalism amusing in this situation.
univariate
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Hillary is probably relieved that it isn't Bill's weiner this time.
streetsahead123
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It says a lot that for over a decade the GOP has been expending an absurd amount of energy into bringing down HRC and the best they can do is she was kind of careless with a few pieces of classified info.
Welp, election is back to being close again. What a disaster. Every news channel talkign about Clinton and emails and FBI
Boom thats it you are done. Repubs everywhere suddenly excited. Gonna go vote now. I got fucking family members, people i didnt even know liked trump sending me "insightful" videos about crooked Hillary. I feel sick
Boom thats it you are done. Repubs everywhere suddenly excited. Gonna go vote now. I got fucking family members, people i didnt even know liked trump sending me "insightful" videos about crooked Hillary. I feel sick
If only. Get ready for this to dominate the entire weekend news cycle.
Calm down.
Escape Goat
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They are happy today. It's been a while. They won't be happy in a few days when the polls aren't much improved and they definitely won't be happy on the 8th. So, I say let them have today.
balladofwindfishes
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If it wasn't the emails it'd be something else.
You weren't going to vote in the first place?
no, i mean all those repubs thinking shit is rigged are gonna go vote.
Most frustrating thing we've learned from the email leaks- Her staff advised her not to do this. Were shocked to find out when she did.
If only she had listened.
No reason to be too alarmed yet. Not enough undecideds care enough about her email issues to switch over. Most people have already made up their minds.
Now, if something of note is uncovered... That's a different story. I don't think that's going to be the case, though.
like her dodgy charity or suspect voting record. She kinda lucked out running against Trump.
They were going to vote anyway.
balladofwindfishes
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Her charity isn't dogdy and her voting record is basically identical to Sanders, so yea, thanks for proving my point. If it wasn't one non-story it'd be one of the thousands non-issues the GOP has tried to pin on her for decades to no success.
No doubt
Bam Bam Baklava
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He lucked out with her too. I don't know what problems Sanders may have had that would come to light in a general election. But surely it wouldn't have been this fucking ridiculous.
Even then, stuff doesn't stick to people who, fairly or unfairly, think are likable. Clinton just doesn't have that kind of charisma so her not paying a traffic ticket is a big deal.
happy supporters are more likely to show up to vote instead of staying home. that means it might possibly affect down ballot candidates which would suck for hillary if she didn't at least take back the senate.
okay tell us about both in detail mr expert.
He's an elderly, quasi-atheist socialist. That's quite enough to have doomed him in the general election.
Yes, after the republicans attacked him. The republicans are calling into question the very systems that run our government, so the onus is on the other half to stand up and do something about it. That doesn't mean Comey wasn't also well beyond his bounds, which many people including his colleagues have said. And there is a difference between pointing out how he followed the law and came to a conclusion based on evidence, and not just lock her up because that was what the republicans want. You're being very obtuse trying to hide behind your vote.
TheContact
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Anyone listening to Hillary speak about this ?
LiveFromKyoto
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That's the thing though, this case was never actually closed. This isn't a re-open.
DrForester
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I don't think this is enough to stop her from being President.
I think I'm giving up on a landslide now, or the house and senate flipping to democrat though. Which sucks because if the Dems don't take the senate we're not getting a SCOTUS replacement anytime soon.
calm down, I just listed two things that are constantly brought up as a negative against Clinton. Watching her stutter and stumble over these in the debate means someone was wasn't a complete asshole like Trump would've definitely been able to exploit it.
Fair enough. I hope the enthusiasm dies down. I'd love to see the senate won.
Isn't her charity like completely open with their records? Haven't they also raised a lot of money for needy people for decades and that is well documented? What is shady there?
elrechazado
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After they attacked him? The Republicans were attacking him as soon as he didn't charge her,in real time, which is exactly what I was pointing out in the post you quoted. When did I say they only defended and cited comey before the press conference?? Stop trying to move the goalposts. I said Democrats were using Comey as an apoeal to authority. You said that didn't happen. I showed you it did. You...give a non response, then attack me? All righty.
The Clinton Foundation is totally shady because reasons, not releasing your tax returns is absolutely okay tho, nothing shady about that /s
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