bulldogproud wrote:Jimmy_041 wrote:Id still like him to go after the Clintons....
I don't think he would get far if he did. After all, searches of hundreds of thousands of emails have found absolutely nothing criminal about her behaviour. What she did was akin to one of us accessing our work emails through our personal computer or our phone. I am pretty sure most of us have done this at one stage or another.
Yes, in her position, it is rather careless and should not have been done... however, definitely not criminal.
If Hillary Clinton should be in jail for this, then so should every member of the LNP. It was revealed earlier this year that all parliamentary members of the LNP access their government records through their private servers.
Compare these actions against the fact that Trump has been the defendant in over 1 000 civil cases, many of which have been in relation to fraud, almost all of which he settled out of court.
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Trump, when he said in that debate that he'd implement a special prosecutor to go after Clinton, made probably one of the scariest propositions in his whole campaign.
Clinton has been investigated over the email thing, and whether you like it or not, she has been found to have no case to answer. That's it, case closed. You can't be tried twice for the same thing. Sure, if you find extra evidence you can try to re-open the case, bit otherwise it's a no go zone.
When political leaders use their power to take the law into their own hands, in particular the criminal law, to pursue political adversaries, it's called an abuse of power. It's taking a shit on the rule of law, which is the bedrock principle that underpins western democracies like here and the US. Such abuses typify what totalitarian regimes do to silence their political opponents.
Imagine if you'd been acquitted of a crime, and then straight away the premier appointed someone to go after you specifically. Sure as shit they'd 'find' something, eventually, to put you away. Sounds unfair, right? That's because it is. If the cops can't make charges stick, then too bad. The law is not there as an arbitrary plaything of those who obtain power.
Like I've said in a earlier post, I don't think Trump's going to go ahead with most of his bluster. He lacks the political philosophy and convictions to properly go after Clinton.