{"id":2958,"date":"2022-09-11T23:58:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T23:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2022-09-11T23:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T23:58:39","slug":"the-falsest-of-equivalencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/11\/the-falsest-of-equivalencies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Falsest Of Equivalencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The falsest of equivalencies<\/span><\/h1>\n

by:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Robert Harrington<\/a> | 9:00 pm EDT September 10, 2022\u00a0 in The Palmer Report<\/p>\n

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When Lindsey Graham metaphorically smacked his lips at the delectable prospect of Donald Trump\u2019s goons, ghouls and cretins \u201crioting in the streets\u201d if Trump should be indicted, he summoned the ghost of Hillary Clinton as a moral justification. After all, the feds did nothing to Hillary, right? If they indict Trump and not Hillary, isn\u2019t that politicalization? Isn\u2019t that favouritism? Isn\u2019t that (gasp!) prosecutorial misconduct?<\/p>\n

No it is not. What it is, Senator, is a false equivalency. And you know perfectly well that\u2019s what it is. For Lindsey\u2019s low-information, mouth-breathing followers whom he\u2019s trying to trick with these lies, here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n

After an extensive investigation of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the FBI found they couldn\u2019t charge her with one or more crimes because she hadn\u2019t committed any. She was indiscreet, to be sure, but indiscretion is not a crime. And lucky for the people who keep insisting that she committed crimes, neither is persistent, intentional, stubborn stupidity.<\/p>\n

Why didn\u2019t Hillary commit any crimes? Because there was no deliberate or systemic mishandling of classified information. Because there was no deliberate or systemic intent to conceal classified information. Indeed, there was no mishandling of physical documents at all. Hillary\u2019s documents were electronic. Even the inspector general\u2019s office in Trump\u2019s Justice Department concluded that the FBI had no reason to charge Clinton.<\/p>\n

So Clinton took no physical documents out of a SCIF. (Note: no information she handled was SCIF-worthy, either). She didn\u2019t ignore pleas for cooperation from the FBI. She didn\u2019t lie and claim she\u2019d turned them back over to the FBI when in fact she had not. She didn\u2019t store highly sensitive secrets at a private club that had an unfortunate habit of letting foreign spies walk around.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t try to demonise or vilify the FBI. She didn\u2019t try to provoke hatred against the FBI among her fans and followers. No one tried to murder FBI agents as a result of provocative statements Hillary made about the investigation into her emails. Above all, the FBI didn\u2019t beg her for a year and a half to return stolen documents while she played games with them and told lies to them.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what she did in fact do: she sent emails on an improperly secured server. Two or three of those emails contained classified information. None of that classified information potentially put at risk lives or national security. She was asked not to do it again. She didn\u2019t do it again. End of story. Get the difference?<\/p>\n

Republicans have used \u201cHillary\u2019s emails\u201d as a pearl-clutching battle cry for years now when they know perfectly well that it\u2019s completely disingenuous to vilify her. But because it\u2019s the best they can come up with they keep doing it, and contemptibly stupid people continue to believe them, the same way contemptibly stupid people believed Senator Joseph McCarthy and his communist-baiting lies.<\/p>\n

Trump followers in MAGAland have all the same information we have, they simply reach different conclusions because they\u2019re stupid. They also believe it because they want to, and they are easily persuaded to believe whatever they want to believe because they are also weak.<\/p>\n

So the next time someone suggests to you that there is some kind of equivalency between Hillary\u2019s emails and Trump stealing, concealing and lying about highly classified and sensitive materials he stole and tried to conceal at Mar-a-Lago, show them this article. Don\u2019t be surprised if they then refuse to read it. Because stupid people are also ignorant people, and ignorant people often love to stay that way.<\/p>\n

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