2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: More on Hillary Clinton's felonies. She held guilty knowledge to sustain 18 USC Sec. 793(e) charges [View all]0rganism
(25,287 posts)the era of SBS' "we're all tired of hearing about your damn emails" is now officially over. and not because of SBS, either.
this issue is key for the Trump campaign, because they don't have a whole lot of recent scandal to work with -- bringing up shit about Benghazi and Rose Law just isn't going to fly anymore. but this email server thing still has legs. i fully expect an avalanche of Republican attack ads targeting at least 3 aspects of this situation:
1. HRC jeopardized national security while serving as Sec. of State by running her own underprotected email server
2. HRC is so obsessed with information control that she felt the need to run her own private email server
3. HRC is so technologically inept and poorly advised that she didn't see the disconnect between #1 and #2.
this is going to hit hard and it's going to hurt. for damage control, HRC will need to have a simple response that addresses all 3 points in under 30 seconds, and it can't mention the FBI or the DOJ or, really, any agency of the Obama administration. referencing prior SoS for precedent will be acceptable at first, but eventually the difference between having an alt. email address and running a private email server will gain emphasis and such defenses won't fly.
without a really tight response, this is going to put a wedge between HRC and ex-GOP "national security moderates" she'd like to win over to form a lasting Democratic center.
by not abusing this during the campaign, SBS gave HRC many months to come up with a fresh answer to these accusations. it needs to rock hard , or we'll have an actual problem.
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