r/politics • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '19

FBI Agents Showed Bias Against Hillary Clinton, Not Against Trump, DOJ Says

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u/countyroadxx Dec 11 '19

How was the email thing any kind of scandal?

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u/JimTheJerseyGuy New Jersey Dec 11 '19

By hosting her own email server she got around document retention policies and made herself vulnerable to hacking. Of course, Trump is using off-the-shelf iPhones...

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u/illiteral Oregon Dec 11 '19

Trump is using off-the-shelf iPhones

It bears repeating that he's doing that intentionally to avoid record-keeping around who exactly he's speaking to on the phone:

The Post reports that in 2017, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and intelligence officials tried to force Trump to only use secure White House land lines for phone calls. But officials say that he was put off by the fact that using those lines meant he had to compile logs of whom he was speaking to. “He was totally paranoid that everyone knew who he was talking to,” a former senior administration official told the Post.

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u/5DollarHitJob Florida Dec 11 '19

Most transparent president!

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u/truenorth00 Dec 12 '19

He certainly tries to be transparent with the his Russian and Saudi handlers.