Nnanji
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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker The 'journalist' needs to brush up on his English. What the statement means is that your 'need to know' doesn't outweigh Hillary's right to privacy. Had Hillary been a private citizen at the time I would agree with that 100%, however she was a public official, i.e. Secretary of State, and therefore her emails should be official government records and open to public inspection. It's ironic that the same people calling for Trump to release his tax records from when he was a private citizen, are the same people saying Hillary's emails from her time as a public servant should be withheld. Candidates releasing tax records is simply a custom, but there has never been any binding legal requirement to do so. There ARE laws regarding the records of office holders and public officials though, that make them public records. She was also cleared by the FBI, which of course no one who supports Trump is allowed to trust. I wonder why? What is really going on here is that Trump and the RWNJ news outlets want to release the emails so that they can twist her words, take statements out of context, and do whatever they can to make it look like she made some corrupt deal with the FBI/Comey/whoever has ties to the Trump investigation. They want to help Trump undermine the credibility of the FBI in the eyes of the idiot masses and put the focus back on Hillary at the same time. They have already been trying to do this, but releasing the emails would give their propaganda legs. Yes, releasing tax returns is a tradition with which Trump broke. But tax returns aren't like personal exchanges with people you trust, the numbers don't lie-- they will simply show what Trump's accountants were doing for him, as well as his business deals. Nothing personal, nothing about his friends or family or business partners, no backstabbing, vulgarity or shit talking. The issue with Trump's tax returns is mostly the fact that he is so aggressively opposed to releasing them, even when not releasing them leads to endless speculation about his extremely sketchy real estate dealings with Russian oligarchs. Hiding something of a highly personal nature isn't the same thing as hiding something that, if it is what you are saying it is, would go a long way towards clearing your name in the eyes of the public. Not cleared, just not prosecuted. Had she had an (R) after her name you'd be howling still. This point has been brought up before and I know you've seen it. Your so smart, you must have just momentarily forgotten.
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