• Kit
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    I’m perpetually out of the loop. Did Trump’s emails get leaked?

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        That’s wild. Any idea what media outlet specifically it was leaked to?

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        But I thought it was Iran that hacked Trump. Surely they have media that can make this info available.

        No, that makes sense. They have the time and energy to hack the Trump campaign email servers. But somehow lack the ability to make that information public. Yeah, that makes much more sense.

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          Yesterday there was speculation that it was an internal leak, not a foreign country. Remember that Trump’s entire staff lies constantly.

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        Or because there is literally nothing worth reporting. I guarantee if there was some juicy stories, they would come out.

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      No, they specifically didn’t get leaked. And that’s the story. Trump’s team got hacked, and the hackers sent the emails to the news outlets. The outlets protected Trump, and refused to publish the emails.

      Which is in stark contrast to what happened when Hillary’s emails got sent to the news outlets. The outlets were clambering to be the first to publish them.

      Almost as if the outlets have a strong bias…

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        They did not wipe all the emails. Her team sorted through to send only the ones which were subpeonaed, which is what you are supposed to do.

        And the DNC hack is what the original post probably meant, but people mix all this stuff up. Those were published on Wikileaks and generated super productive controversies, such as pizzagate.

        And it isn’t illegal per se to use private email. It’s extremely common, but should be cracked down on. A big problem with it is age. Try telling your grandma she has to use a different email when she contacts you about certain topics.

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            Nixon was impeached for deleting 8 minutes of his own personal audio recordings… as those records were subpoenaed, because you can’t keep any kind of private records of you conducting government business….

            That is such a gross oversimplification of why Nixon was impeached I don’t even know where to start.

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            Criminal intent is required for all crimes except those which are strict liability.

            And you really ate the propaganda on the rest, not sure what else to say.