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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Doomsdaysmores · 41-45, M

Last I knew, at the time he took possession of the documents in question, Trump was the President, and therefore had the power to declassify documents at his discretion.

Hillary never had that power.

That said, if he broke the law, I'll support prosecuting him right after I see Hillary go to prison.

sarabee1995 · 26-30, FVIP

@Doomsdaysmores Yes, he had the power to declassify those documents. But he didn't.

Declassifying of documents leaves a paper trail. It involves instructions given in writing and confirmation that the declassification had taken place. This didn't happen so the documents are still classified.

Doomsdaysmores · 41-45, M

@sarabee1995 I'll wait for the evidence to come out. If there is evidence of illegal activity I'm sure they'll prosecute, as they'll take whatever they can get to stop him from running just like they tried to impeach him for things that aren't crimes.

sarabee1995 · 26-30, FVIP

@Doomsdaysmores I'm not as optimistic as you. I doubt he'll be prosecuted.

Doomsdaysmores · 41-45, M

@sarabee1995 truth be told I doubt he will either. My doubts come from about 5 years of the left going after him for everything from non-crimes to tax evasion to "insurrection" to apparently being a Russian operative and coming up with nothing. That said, my previous statement shouldn't be misconstrued as optimism. This is obviously yet another political witch-hunt, and will likely end the same way as the rest of the attacks against him have ended.

sarabee1995 · 26-30, FVIP

@Doomsdaysmores
1) I know your statement wasn't "optimistic" from your perspective. I was employing sarcasm.

2) President Trump did mishandle classified information. Yes yes yes, we need to wait for the investigation to run it's course and Trump will obstruct the investigation at every step (just as Clinton did with hers)

3) The bottom line: Both of these individuals consider themselves above the law and their followers accept this. 🤦‍♀️

Doomsdaysmores · 41-45, M

@sarabee1995 except Trump has been forthcoming with the FBI. Even locked documents in a room with THEIR lock to ensure they wouldn't be compromised. Not saying he didn't do wrong, and if he did, like I said before, once I see Hillary in shackles and on her way to prison for her crimes, I'm all for prosecuting him. I won't support him being prosecuted without her conviction, though, because without her conviction there is the appearance of a two-tiered justice system.

Being a person who holds a TS clearance, you know that in order for her to have the classified information on her private server, she or whomever sent it to her had to have intentionally removed it from the SCIF and placed it on an insecure system, knowing that they were breaking the law. Comey, in his statement where he didn't recommend charges, introduced a standard requiring intent to break the law, which doesn't exist in the relevant law. Whether it exists or not, knowing that you're violating the law by removing classified information to an insecure system, more than meets that standard.

The President, on the other hand, has plenary declassification powers, and can effectively declassify anything at will. It's entirely possible that he did that and the paperwork didn't get completed on the backend. Then it's not a stretch to believe that everything was believed to be in order when he left the White House to remove the documents.

Either way, I'll wait for the evidence to come out, just like I did with Jussie Smollett, the Covington Catholic story, the Bubba Wallace debacle, and the Russia hoax. Wait for the evidence to come out before you make any judgement.

room101 · 51-55, M

@Doomsdaysmores

"trump has been forthcoming with the FBI"🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂