https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...0b618c98d3c_story.html?utm_term=.1b49c734fb53
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...eets-about-Hillary-Clinton-s-email-were-a-lie
Overnight, Donald Trump repeated the latest conspiracy theory making the rounds on the alt-Reich, a claim that Hillary Clinton’s email had been hacked by the Chinese. The claim, which started with an anonymously sourced report on the website Daily Caller, has been repeated both on the air and on the net by Fox News. According to the report, investigators for the intelligence community Inspector General uncovered the intrusion and attempted to get the FBI to take action, only to be stopped by Clinton-loving FBI officials, including the recently fired Peter Strzok. But now the FBI is pushing back on the unsupported claims, saying once again that there is no evidence that Clinton’s private email server was compromised.
According to the Washington Post, when asked to respond, the FBI simply stated that it has “never found any evidence” of a breach in Clinton’s private servers. Trump has often deliberately confused the server that Clinton’s staff maintained while she was secretary of State with the server at the DNC which was breached by Russian hackers, who went on to steal thousands of emails. Clinton’s server, and the emails it contained, were the subject of multiple investigations by the FBI and congressional committees. None of those investigations turned up the slightest scrap of evidence that the security of the server had been violated by China or anyone else.
In a late-night tweet, Trump insisted that the “next move” by the FBI and Department of Justice “better be” looking into the situation. But Trump’s actual purpose in these tweets doesn’t seem to be starting any serious investigation. He treated the story as another opportunity to trot out a list of familiar accusations about the FBI’s “missteps” and threaten that the agency’s “credibility” is in danger.
Trump’s tweets, and the promotion of the story by Fox, are giving support to a story with no apparent basis. Because that story serves the ongoing purposes of villainizing Clinton, demeaning the FBI, and disparaging the notion that there is any objective truth. It’s a line of attack that was highly successful for Trump in 2016 … but someone might want to let him know that Hillary Clinton is not on the ballot this year.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...eets-about-Hillary-Clinton-s-email-were-a-lie
Overnight, Donald Trump repeated the latest conspiracy theory making the rounds on the alt-Reich, a claim that Hillary Clinton’s email had been hacked by the Chinese. The claim, which started with an anonymously sourced report on the website Daily Caller, has been repeated both on the air and on the net by Fox News. According to the report, investigators for the intelligence community Inspector General uncovered the intrusion and attempted to get the FBI to take action, only to be stopped by Clinton-loving FBI officials, including the recently fired Peter Strzok. But now the FBI is pushing back on the unsupported claims, saying once again that there is no evidence that Clinton’s private email server was compromised.
According to the Washington Post, when asked to respond, the FBI simply stated that it has “never found any evidence” of a breach in Clinton’s private servers. Trump has often deliberately confused the server that Clinton’s staff maintained while she was secretary of State with the server at the DNC which was breached by Russian hackers, who went on to steal thousands of emails. Clinton’s server, and the emails it contained, were the subject of multiple investigations by the FBI and congressional committees. None of those investigations turned up the slightest scrap of evidence that the security of the server had been violated by China or anyone else.
In a late-night tweet, Trump insisted that the “next move” by the FBI and Department of Justice “better be” looking into the situation. But Trump’s actual purpose in these tweets doesn’t seem to be starting any serious investigation. He treated the story as another opportunity to trot out a list of familiar accusations about the FBI’s “missteps” and threaten that the agency’s “credibility” is in danger.
Trump’s tweets, and the promotion of the story by Fox, are giving support to a story with no apparent basis. Because that story serves the ongoing purposes of villainizing Clinton, demeaning the FBI, and disparaging the notion that there is any objective truth. It’s a line of attack that was highly successful for Trump in 2016 … but someone might want to let him know that Hillary Clinton is not on the ballot this year.
