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They both belong in jail...

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They violated the law, they should be held accountable like anyone else. No special treatment.
Trump should be prosecuted, but Clinton deserves special treatment.
Clinton should be prosecuted, but Trump deserves special treatment.
Leave them both alone; there should be no government secrets.
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I have a security clearance for my job. It is necessary every single day. Several hours of each day are spent in a room where the presence of my phone would be the military equivalent of a felony.

Classified information and documents are very heavily regulated and everyone with a security clearance is thoroughly trained on those regulations.

Both Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump violated our laws and, if not for their wealth and political status, would be in jail. I say lock 'em up.
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Actually, the search warrant tells us that Trump's potential crimes have nothing to do with classification. The search warrant was looking for violations of the Espionage Act and the Presidential Records Act. Classification or declassification has nothing to do with those laws.

But if we're gonna pursue people who used personal email to conduct government business, then by all means go after both Hillary and Trump. And maybe add Ivanka & Jared to the list. And Steve Bannon too!

The first daughter and senior White House adviser used a personal account to send hundreds of government business emails to Cabinet members, White House aides and her assistants, people familiar with her emails told The Washington Post in November 2018.

"While transitioning into government, after she was given an official account but until the White House provided her the same guidance they had given others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her personal account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family," Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Ivanka Trump's attorney Abbe Lowell, said in a statement.

Ivanka Trump's husband and fellow senior White House adviser used either his personal email accounts or the messaging app WhatsApp for official communications, according to information previously obtained by the House Oversight Committee.

A lawyer for Kushner told The Wall Street Journal in March that Kushner "took images of his communications" on WhatsApp and forwarded them to his work accounts.

Kushner was among White House officials subject to Cummings' July 1 request for information by July 10.

Oh, and let's not forget Steve Bannon!
The president's former chief strategist used his personal email account in 2017 in communications around an effort to send American nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia "in coordination with" the president's longtime friend and inaugural committee head Tom Barrack," Cummings told The Journal in March.

Bannon has admitted that he regularly used a Blackberry and his private email for work-related correspondence with people including outside adviser Erik Prince, and that he tried to preserve the communications. Bannon was also among officials subject to Cummings' July 1 request.