Dana Milbank: Trump wants to be treated like Hillary Clinton? By all means.

[babylonsister]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/30/trump-hillary-clinton-classified-documents-equal-treatment/

Opinion
Trump wants to be treated like Hillary Clinton? By all means.
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By Dana Milbank
Columnist |
August 30, 2022 at 4:07 p.m. EDT

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The FBI should undertake a sprawling, multiyear investigation into Trump’s conduct, grilling him and his staff, running extensive forensics, and examining whether his actions allowed hostile actors to compromise U.S. security. The FBI should continue to keep him under investigation while he runs for president in 2024.

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MAGA Republicans should be careful what they wish for as they respond to every development in Trump’s legal saga with fits of whataboutism: What about Clinton? What about Hunter Biden? Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz even penned “A Defense of ‘Whataboutism’ ” for the Wall Street Journal.

If they really want Trump to be treated the way Clinton was in 2016, they’ll also have to arrange for him to be the subject of “lock him up” chants at Democratic rallies and for the Democratic nominee’s advisers and prominent backers to assert that Trump should be “executed,” “shot” and hanged.

Preliminarily, Trump’s case appears much more serious than Clinton’s. Clinton mishandled a small amount of classified information. (Of tens of thousands of emails, three were marked classified and about 100 had unmarked classified material.) Trump apparently made off with boxes containing more than 700 pages of classified material, including some of the most sensitive types of intelligence, and refused to give it back — even under subpoena. Still to be determined: Trump’s motive and the damage to national security.

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In Clinton’s case, Comey concluded, “We do not see those things.” And Trump? Fairness requires that he be held to that same standard.

[imanamerican63]

1. But would or could he set in front of any Congressional hearing for very long?

[flying_wahini]

9. Chain him to the chair.

Kidding, not kidding.

[rubbersole]

2. Until he shits his pants.

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Fifteen minutes.

[DLCWIdem]

3. Finally

A journalist or talking head has pointed out the sheer absurdity of the whataboutism regarding Hillary Clinton

[exboyfil]

4. Don't forget the Attorney General joining a lock her up chant

[Emile]

5. He wants to testify under oath for hours on end?

[Marcuse]

6. False equivalency. She did not remove them to Chappaqua when she left the government.

Clinton mishandled a small amount of classified information.

[niyad]

7. That was not properly marked as classified.

[samsingh]

8. trump seems to be a traitor and should be treated with disgust and put on trial

and if found guilty, put in jail with all those who also committed crimes

1 justice system for all.

[Hortensis]

10. And they should hound him for decades with character-assassination

investigations. AND, treating him like her, he should be appropriately charged and brought to trial for any genuine, actionable crimes he's found to have committed.

NONE in HRC's case. ZERO. NEVER HAPPENED, even when the GOP controlled the federal government.

I'm guessing literally hundreds (four figures, remembering all those emolument violations?) in his.

[William Seger]

11. Bitch that Trump!

[turtleblossom]

12. Really? Ok. LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!