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There are hundreds of thousands of regulations carrying criminal penalties. If a political party is determined to imprison an opponent, it will find a law they’
by ETH_start 1y ago
There are hundreds of thousands of regulations carrying criminal penalties. If a political party is determined to imprison an opponent, it will find a law they’ve technically violated. In Trump’s case, they used an obscure accounting rule — one so trivial that even prominent Democratic supporters acknowledged it was an inappropriate basis for prosecution.
Hillary Clinton used a private email server while serving as Secretary of State, and in 2014, her staff deleted 31,000 emails they labeled personal to prevent them from being scrutinized in an impending investigation. You don't think that if Hillary had been a Republican and if the Democrats were determined to prosecute her, they couldn't have found some law that she broke and prosecuted her on it?
- sethammons 1y agoWait. What do you think about Hegseth's signal and atlantic reporter issue? That is wildly worse and where is the court case that absolutely should be happening?
- ETH_start 1y agoThat's nothing. Compare that to deleting 30,000 emails to avoid them being scrutinized in an investigation.
- sethammons 1y agoYou think Hegseth's use of Signal is nothing. Gotcha. Rules for thee but not for me.
- ETH_start 1y agoI think using an open source encrypted communication app is no big deal compared to what Hillary Clinton did. The Democratic Party thinks that what Hillary Clinton did was no big deal. Rules for thee, but not for me.
- bdangubic 1y ago[flagged]
- ETH_start 1y agoComments like this really don't belong in hacker news. They amount to blind partisanship and instigation of flame wars.
- bdangubic 1y agocomparing Hegseth to HRC will do a whole lot more :)
- ETH_start 1y agoClinton deleted 30,000 emails to prevent them from being scrutinized in an investigation.
- bdangubic 1y agowe are not banana republic (just yet, getting there though) so anyone that breaks a law under a given statute you file charges, run an investigation and punish if law(s) are broken. if memory serves me well there was one :) can’t say the same for Hegseth et al but night is young so-to-speak…
- ETH_start 1y agoThe prosecution record, where Trump and dozens of his allies were prosecuted, is the record of a banana republic. Like I said there's hundreds of thousands of regulations which hold the potential for criminal sanction. They could have found her guilty of something when she deleted those emails. The SDNY DAG found a way to charge the developers of Tornado Cash with running an illegal money transmission service when they didn't even hold it in custody of any funds, they simply published code. They stretched the law to incredible lengths to get someone they wanted. And they couldn't find something to pin on Hillary Clinton? Ridiculous. They didn't for political reasons and you're naive or dishonest for believing otherwise.