Slapping former 76-year-old former President Donald Trump on CNN, 75-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said her once bitter rival in the 2016 presidential race should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Hillary refers to the many investigations of Trump, most obvious the Aug. 8 Mar-a-Lago raid that netted the FBI 25 boxes of extraneous documents, files and memorabilia that apparently contained some classified documents. Hillary was acquitted by former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe in her private email server investigation. Hillary likes nothing more than to swipe a Trump, the man who prevented her from becoming president. But if it had to do with the Obama’s Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and National Security Agency [NSA], Hillary would have been the first woman president.
Preaching to the anti-Trump choir on CNN, Hillary insisted that the DOJ should pursue its investigation and charge Trump if he violated U.S. records’ laws with the appropriate crime. During the 2016 campaign, the FBI investigated Hillary for deleting 33,000 emails off her private server, essentially destroying evidence related to her work as Secretary of State. Comey commissioned Andrew McCabe to investigate why Hillary had he staff smash 12 cell phones and delete 33,000 emails off her private server when she was under Congressional subpoena. Deleting eletronic files routinely carries the charge of obstruction of justice. But McCabe and Comey ended the Hilllary email investigation without explanation. Yet Hillary now tells CNN that Trump should be prosecuted for improperly disposing of classified docs, transferring them from the White House to his locked basement at Mar-a-Lago.
CNN’s new CEO Chris Licht, 50, told many news outlets that he’s trying to rebuild the CNN brand by appealing to a broader audience, especially to Fox News that has a commanding ratings advantage to CNN. Licht is either kidding himself about developing a less Democrat-biased format or he’s got light years to go in his rehab project. Letting Hillary opine on CNN shows that the cable news network still gas a left-wing bias. “He’s not the president, and we do have some special exceptions for someone actually in office. So, I do think that just like any American, if there is evidence, that evidence should be pursued,” Hillary told CNN’s “State of the Union.” Hillary urges the same Justice Department that, under Obama, tried everything possible to sabotage Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Licht can’t possibly think he’s helping CNN’s ratings giving Hillary airtime.
When you go back to the 2016 campaign, the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) handed 66-year-old former CIA Director John Brennan a copy of Hillary’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier to possibly investigate Trump for alleged ties to the Kremlin. Brennan gave the dossier to Comey who opened up a counterintelligence investigation AKA Crossfire Hurricate into Trump alleged ties to Moscow. So, the Obama White House, including his former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, NSA Susan Rice, and Deputy Atty. Gen. Sally Yates all worked on Crossfire Hurricane, all based on Hillary’s fake Steele dossier. Steele’s dossier was a complete fabrication to help Hillary beat Trump in the 2016 campaign. Brennan and Comey knew that bust still used it to help discredit Trump 2016 campaign. No one connected to Crossfire Hurricane was ever prosecuted for breaking the law.
So when Hillary goes on CNN to say allegations about Trump’s improper management of classified files should be pursued by the DOJ, it breaks new ground for hypocrisy. “But if the evidence proves or seems to show that there are charges that should be leveled, then I think the rule of law would apply to anyone,” Hillary told host Dana Bash, another died-in-the-wool Trump-hater. Licht can’t possibly think retaining host like Dana Bash, Anderson Cooper or Don Lemon, offer the new CNN any balance to their programming. When Hillary’s in anti-Trump territory, she’s all about applying the “rule of law.” But when she spoke to ABC’s “The View” Sept 7, she said that no one should be “pre-judged” on the facts like she was in 2016 when the DOJ and FBI looked into her handling of classified information on her private server. Speaking on CNN, Hillary wants the book thrown at Trump.
Hillary acts like she was harassed for no reason about her private server in the 2016 campaign. Any other U.S. citizen that deletes electronic files off their hard drive or server would be charged with “obstruction of justice” Yet when it comes to boxes of junk removed from the White House an shipped to Mar-a-Lago, Hillary wants Trump prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. It’s doubtful Trump knew what he had in the Mar-a-Lago basement because he’s not one to handle those kinds of details. Yet to CNN or Hillary it’s ground to charge Trump with violating the nation’s records acts or worse yet charging him with treason. Hillary told Bash as Secretary of State and private citizens she answered every question related to her server. Yet she never explained why she smashed all 12 cell phones and paid a tech company to wipe out over 33,000 files from her private server.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
