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EDITORIAL  #NoFilter Politics Democratic Party Presumptively Nominates FirstCandidate Under Criminal Investigation By FBITHE EDITORIAL BOARD June 8, 2016

Last night was truly an historic night in

 American politics. The Democratic Party has

presumptively nominated Hillary Clinton,

which marks the first nomination of a

candidate that is under criminal

investigation by the Federal Bureau of

Investigation (FBI).1

 Worse still, a recentRasmussen poll found that 71 percent of

democratic voters think Hillary should keep

running if she is indicted.2 

The message this sends about the modern

Democratic Party is grotesque, and depicts

what many, especially those on the right and

right-leaning independents, have always

thought about the Democratic Party— 

namely, that it is filled with a smug,

pretentious, and elitist group of people

preaching a gospel of “do as I say, not as Idos,” and who think the law and rules are

merely selectively applicable. That is,

applicable to everyone else, but not

applicable to them, especially when their

hand is caught in the cookie jar.

Ironically, one of Hillary’s most prominent

defenses for her private server was that

“other secretaries of state did the same

thing.” First, that notion is factually

incorrect; no other secretary has exclusively

used a homebrew private server to conduct

official government business.3 Second, taken

to its logical extreme, Hillary’s justification

allows someone to justify murder, because

“other people have murdered”—an

outrageous position. Third, this defense

encourages rule breaking in the first

instance. If the threshold for ignoring a rule

is that it has been broken before, then no

plausible existence for the rule of law could

exist.

Hillary even lied about the most basic and

devastating fact—that she send and received

classified information. In that very first

press conference on March 31, 2015, when

Hillary said she “did not email any classifiedmaterial to anyone on [her] email,”4 she was

obviously lying, because if she exclusively

used her private email for officia

government business as Secretary of State, it

is inconceivable that our nation’s top

diplomat did not discuss classified

information over email.

Then Hillary successfully planted a red

herring with which the media could run—

that she never sent nor received information

marked  classified. 5  But that defensesubsequently failed, when it was revealed

that Hillary signed a Nondisclosure

 Agreement with the State Department

which explicitly stated, “classified

information is marked or unmarked

classified information[.]”6 

This all boils down to one thing: Hillary

cannot be trusted to tell the truth. We can

never assume that what Hillary says is

factually correct or not some form of

intentional deception. To be sure, Hillary’s

situation is much different than when

Donald Trump “lies” by exaggerating. Hillary

has been caught intentionally orchestrating

the deception of the public. Accordingly

 America will not be safe if Hillary claims the

reigns as leader of the free world. If that does

happen, we will never know what is fact or

fiction for at least four years.

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References 

1 See, e.g., Guy Benson, FBI: Yes, Our Probe Into Hillary’s Email Scheme is a Criminal

Investigation, TOWN H ALL (Aug. 7, 2015),

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/08/07/report-yes-the-fbis-investigation-into-

hillarys-email-is-a-criminal-probe-n2035654 (last visited Jun. 8, 2016); Pete William, FBI

 formally confirms its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server, MSNBC (Feb. 8, 2016),

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/fbi-formally-confirms-its-investigation-hillary-clintons-email-

server (last visited Jun. 8, 2016); Julian Hattem, FBI head challenges Clinton’s description of

email probe, THE HILL (May 11, 2016), http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/279552-fbi-

head-challenges-clinton-on-email-probe (last visited Jun. 8, 2016).2 Aaron Bandler, Poll: Most Democrats Don’t Care If Hillary Is Indicted, The Daily Wire (Jun. 1,

2016), http://www.dailywire.com/news/6202/poll-most-democrats-dont-care-if-hillary-indicted-

aaron-bandler (last visited Jun. 8, 2016).3 Eugene Kelly, IG Report on Clinton’s Emails, F ACT CHECK  (May 27, 2016),

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/ig-report-on-clintons-emails/ (last visited jun. 8, 2016).4 Washington Post Staff, Complete text of Hillary Clinton’s remarks on e-mails, Iran, THE

W ASHINGTON POST (Mar. 10, 2015), https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/transcript-hillary-clinton-addresses-e-mails-iran/ (last visited May 26,

2016).5 Terence P. Jeffrey, Hillary Clinton Says She Did Not Send or Receive Emails With Material

‘Marked’ Classified, CNS News (Aug. 15, 2015), http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-

 jeffrey/hillary-clinton-says-she-did-not-send-or-receive-emails-material (last visited Jun. 8, 2016)6 United States Department of State, Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement (Jan. 22,

2009), https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/HRC-classified-NDA1.pdf (last visited

Jun. 8, 2016) (emphasis added).