2016 Postmortem

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts) Sat Oct 29, 2016, 07:59 PM Oct 2016

I don't get it. The emails were not from HRC nor to HRC.

Is this witch hunt akin to Kevin Bacon's Six Degrees of Separation?

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I don't get it. The emails were not from HRC nor to HRC. (Original Post) Mr. Ected Oct 2016 OP

It is a lot of todo about nothing Thinkingabout Oct 2016 #1

That's why Comey needs to triron Oct 2016 #2

The only important detail is that Comey is a Republican. FuzzyRabbit Oct 2016 #5

The "email-gate" argument is BlueStreak Oct 2016 #4

Thanks for the succinct summary Mr. Ected Oct 2016 #7

Amen. It was not coincidence that so many media outlets had the exact same wrong information. okaawhatever Oct 2016 #10

Also BREAKING: Trump had the worst week ever and needed a YUUUUGE diversion. Coyotl Oct 2016 #6

It's bullshit, that's why you don't get it! apcalc Oct 2016 #8

That was reported but maybe the report was misleading Cicada Oct 2016 #9

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

1. It is a lot of todo about nothing

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Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:02 PM

Oct 2016

triron

(22,008 posts)

2. That's why Comey needs to

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Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:04 PM

Oct 2016

pressured by the DOJ to give more details!

FuzzyRabbit

(1,968 posts)

5. The only important detail is that Comey is a Republican.

Reply to triron (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:12 PM

Oct 2016

That's all I need to know why he keeps muddying the waters about Hillary and emails.

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)

4. The "email-gate" argument is

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Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:11 PM

Oct 2016

not necessarily that HRC mishandled any email or exposed any national secrets. The argument is that national secrets should be communicated only on secure communication channels operated by the government, although I am not sure there is any law that actually says this.

The theory with Comey's hatchet job is that:

1) Abedin MIGHT have sent and received messages using the HRC email server

2) Some of those messages MIGHT have involved classified secrets

3) Some of those messages MIGHT not have already been examined when the FBI went through thousands of messages that traversed this server.

so, let's just put out a statement a week before the election that encourages everyone to assume the worst.

What is entirely likely is that Abedin's messages were mostly benign and any questionable ones have already been seen HRC provided the server logs to the FBI.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)

7. Thanks for the succinct summary

Reply to BlueStreak (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:19 PM

Oct 2016

The true question is how YOU are able to describe this with ease, while the mainstream media is pounding the war drums as if Comey's announcement was the smoking gun in Hillary's closet.

I mean, for God's sake, there is more of a disconnect between truth and reality in this story than any credible journalist could stomach.

I know our venom is pointed directly at Comey today, but in truth, it's the US media that has purposely and methodically attempted to destroy Clinton and prop up Trump from the very inception of their respective campaigns.

A complicitous media is the enemy of a democracy.

okaawhatever

(9,462 posts)

10. Amen. It was not coincidence that so many media outlets had the exact same wrong information.

Reply to Mr. Ected (Reply #7)

Sat Oct 29, 2016, 10:07 PM

Oct 2016

Initial reporting specifically said these emails came from Hillary's server, which they did not, and Comey had reopened the investigation, which he did not, among other things.

I'm with you. The media deserves a slice of the blame here.

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

6. Also BREAKING: Trump had the worst week ever and needed a YUUUUGE diversion.

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Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:12 PM

Oct 2016

Oct. 23. Porn star Jessica Drake claims Donald Trump offered her $10G, use of his private jet for sex

Donald Trump’s offer of $10,000 and the use of his private jet couldn’t turn a porn star into a prostitute.

Jessica Drake — whose credits include “Sex for Sale” and “Think Pink” — claims she rejected the billionaire’s crude come-ons during a 2006 golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Calif.

“This is not acceptable behavior for anyone — much less a presidential candidate,” the adult film star said ........

Oct. 25. Donald Trump hosted wild parties with sex, cocaine and underage models: report

..... Trump allowed the attendees to do whatever drugs they wanted, the photographer said. As guests partied hard on coke and top-shelf liquor, the mogul would stroll from room to room and hook up with girls.

“He'd wander off with a couple girls. I saw him. He was getting laid like crazy," the photographer said. "Trump was at the heart of it. He loved the attention and in private, he was a total f---ing beast.” .....

Oct. 28. Former Miss Finland is 12th woman to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault

Ninni Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland in the Miss Universe competition that Trump once owned, alleged that he ‘grabbed my butt’ during a photo shoot

A former beauty queen has become the 12th woman to openly accuse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of sexual assault.
Jessica Drake: porn star is 11th woman to allege Trump sexual misconduct
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Ninni Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland in the Miss Universe competition that Trump once owned, alleged in an interview with the Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat that Trump groped her before an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2006.

“Before the show we were photographed outside the building,” Laaksonen said, according to a translation provided by The Telegraph. “Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt. He really grabbed my butt.

“I don’t think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: ‘What is happening?’”

Laaksonen said that she had been told at other events that year that Trump found her attractive because she reminded him of his wife, Melania, whom he had married the year before.

“Somebody told me there that Trump liked me because I looked like Melania when she was younger,” Laaksonen said. “It left me disgusted.”

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apcalc

(4,465 posts)

8. It's bullshit, that's why you don't get it!

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Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:36 PM

Oct 2016

Cicada

(4,533 posts)

9. That was reported but maybe the report was misleading

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Sat Oct 29, 2016, 09:44 PM

Oct 2016

Maybe huma forwarded HRC emails from one of her computers to Anthony's computer. I read she did stuff like that to get to a computer where she could print hard copies for HRC who did not like reading them on a screen.

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