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‘But Her Emails!’: Trump Said Hillary Couldn’t Be Trusted with Classified Info — And Social Media Can’t Stop Laughing

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“But her emails.”

Yes, we heard about the emails over and over and all those nefarious things that were deleted, including some emails that were classified, according to the FBI – but those emails were saved on the other end, and the information was never lost. We know because the FBI studied them.

And now here we are. It is almost fictional to think that the “Trump era” is perhaps ending (there is a long way to go) because Trump tucked some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets into his pocket to sell later on. Let’s be real. Trump didn’t have a fixation on technical details regarding any policy, never mind “nuclear” policy. Trump was and is, however, always fixated on money. Hence the nuclear documents taken to Mar-a-Lago almost surely intersect with a money line somewhere.

From Jack Holmes over at Esquire [1]:

In 2016, Donald Trump ran as the candidate who would be the better steward of classified information. By his telling—and many others’—Hillary Clinton’s email protocol had proved she couldn’t be trusted with top-secret intel. Our best chance as a nation was to hand over the nuclear codes to the game show host with the fake foundation [2] and the fake university [3] and the fake life story [4] of self-made success [5] in Business.

But keep in mind that the majority of Americans were not fooled. Almost three million more Americans voted for Hillary and Hillary has admitted since that she wasn’t the “most likable” candidate to go against Trump. Her campaign also made many mistakes (“deplorables,” you never put down voters, no matter how true).

Still:

By February 2017, you could find a random Mar-a-Lago member posting a picture to Facebook [6] showing Trump reviewing possibly sensitive documents with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a table on the club’s back patio following a provocative North Korean missile launch. Opsec! White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the information wasn’t classified, and as we know you can take his word to the bank. 

Before Trump was even sworn in, it was readily apparent to everyone that it was all just a big money-making television show to Trump. We knew the moment we heard that he was taking time out of his busy “Get Ready to Be President” schedule to do… rallies, we knew when Trump raised more money in history for his inauguration gala and spent… very little.

 No one said [Trump would be the better keeper of secrets] explicitly, but they didn’t have to: the emails coverage was so deafening and constant—it got as much coverage in six days as actual policy issues did in 69 [7]—that the only reasonable takeaway for the kind of casual news consumer that makes up a huge part of the electorate was that anyone was more trustworthy than Hillary Clinton. In the relentless quest to show they were Tough On Both Sides, the mainstream media pitched Donald Trump for the job of Secrets Keeper. Unless it directly involves his self-preservation, he’s not an ideal candidate.

It is almost Shakespearean, with the tragic-comedy motif. We won’t know how “tragic” it is until we hear how much Trump gave away. Do the Saudis have all they need now to build their own nuclear program? We have absolutely no idea and won’t for years. We do know that Trump was elected almost solely upon the doubts Trump cast about Clinton’s responsibility and whether she’d play both sides of the fence.

Some of us were never fooled. Most of us.

And Twitter is having a field day:

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman