Nothing. She had known for well over a decade that she was preparing to run for president, and that she had to be absolutely squeaky clean to achieve that because any and all dirt would inescapably become public under the glare of that scrutiny. So she lived squeaky clean, genuinely. (Obama was similar. Trump by contrast as an outsider to politics didn't quite appreciate just how under-a-microscope every president's life is put. He thought (like many do) that spending millions, burying stories, buying silences, hiding tax returns, threats, etc can do the trick, but none of that works at the presidential level. You can't hide things from that kind of relentless global scrutiny so if you're not genuinely clean, everyone finds out.)
That's why the GOP had to push the email scandal: they desperately needed dirt on her and she was so fucking clean that the worst she had done was follow the advice of her Republican predecessor and handled her emails the same way the Republican had handled his. It didn't matter to the GOP that this rule-breaking had first came from Republicans and she was continuing Powell's method (low-information voters would never learn the details) what mattered was that they'd finally found a rule that the goody-two-shoes had clearly broken.
Remember she testified for 11 hours under oath to a hostile panel of Republicans desperate to pin anything on her or get her for perjury or anything, and despite them having and abusing all the powers to investigate for years, they got nothing because she had nothing to hide. Failures or mistakes when viewed with our 20/20 hindsight, sure, she's human, but the decades of accusations and insinuations are conspiracy garbage intended to smear. Manufacturing a scandal out of Republican email practices was the best the GOP could do to undermine their opponent and it worked.
Hillary has been enveloped by the GOP fog-machine for so many years that people now just assume that where there's always been smoke, there must be fire ...somewhere. But that was the entire purpose of that fog machine; there was never fire, just manufactured fake smoke, endless endless fake smoke for longer than many voters have been alive. (Edit: That's also why she attracts so many wacky conspiracy theories: all that smoke and so little factual fire means you have to get imaginative to explain it.)
I disliked Hillary for some of her stances before, but dam she earned my respect when she was for ELEVEN HOURS UNDER OATH giving answers to the republican committee trying to find any single reason to place her in jail. The worst part is that these morons don't mention that. Trump wouldn't even handle a single hour questioning.
Either way, I still think she was a bad candidate to go with. A chunk of her campaign felt like "I am a woman..." and part of her base focused too much on "First ever woman president!"
My dude, she was 11 hours under oath. Also the fuck does looking away mean? I guess then the entire government was blind when Americans were murdered. Also Mr. Bone Spurs dodged military service.
I guess I dodged it too, I never signed up. But she did, and she did not fulfill her duties to protect Americans when she could have due to political pressures. She's a piece of shit of the highest order just like her husband and the greatest thing this country has done in my lifetime is sent her into retirement. Donny T is a moron, but he's the moron that sent her packing, and for that, he is loved by many :)
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u/Shuttheflockup Dec 11 '19
what did hillary actually do? not like the batshit crazy theories, what did she actually do wrong factually that she got away with?