Should Trump be prosecuted? The answer is, no. He shouldn’t be prosecuted. Hillary Clinton was let off the hook in 2016 for
precisely the same crimes of which Trump is now accused, down to the wiping of the servers and the exposing of classified information to those without classification status.
Remember when Clinton directed her immigrant maid to print out classified information — and even enter a SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) to pick up classified faxes, including the
Presidential Daily Brief? Remember when
Clinton’s tech firm used BleachBit to wipe away her private server’s classified emails — and then she joked about it, asking whether the server had been wiped “like with a cloth”?
Yet Clinton wasn’t prosecuted. Why? Because, as then-FBI Director James Comey said,
despite the likelihood that foreign actors may have gained access to classified materials, Clinton didn’t have
intent to distribute classified materials to foreign actors. Comey rewrote the law to avoid charging her because she was a presidential candidate.
Now, the DOJ is hitting Trump with the book.