“If I win, I am going to
instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your
situation.” – Republican nominee Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton during the
second presidential debate, October 9, 2016
“Mark the moment. A
major-party presidential nominee is officially promising to lock up his
political opponent, despite an impartial federal investigation....” An
anonymous Washington Post editorial, October 10, 2016
As The Post is a Hillary
fundraiser, it's impossible for them to be impartial related to Mrs.
Clinton's candidacy. In practice that makes them a propagandist
rag rather than a legitimate news source.
This is proven by how The
Post has, once again, twisted reality into something completely unrecognizable.
In their absurdist editorial “A threat to the rule of law,” Donald Trump's
pledge to do the right thing—to prosecute Hillary Clinton's obvious
corruption—is “wrong”? Let us cite the legal basis: under Title 18, Section
1924, of federal law, it is a misdemeanor punishable by fines and imprisonment
for any federal employee to knowingly remove classified information “without
authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an
unauthorized location.” Mrs. Clinton's non-government, unapproved servers
certainly qualify. Thus, Mr. Trump's promise of a special prosecutor for Mrs.
Clinton is actually following legal precedent: holding the powerful to the same
legal standard as everyone else. Isn't that the purpose of our American
democracy rather than the whims of the rich and politically powerful?
Mysteriously, the Post
doesn't agree writing: “If anyone needed any more proof that Mr. Trump does not
understand the meaning of rule of law as opposed to arbitrary rule of
autocrat—that he would use the levers of the federal government in a
vindictive, self-serving and corrupt manner—Mr. Trump provided it.” As an
example, does Barack Obama's continuing misuse of the IRS
to target political opponents suddenly not qualify? Why does The Post
confuse outsider
Trump with the acts of the current president who has existed by dictatorial
overreaching executive orders for the last eight years?
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