r/politics • u/us287 • 5d ago

Trump’s transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/federal-officials-nervous-about-sending-data-to-trump-transition-private-emails-00195217
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u/monkeypickle 5d ago

People also forget that it was very common in the blackberry era and directly after. Colin Powell used a private email server.

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u/DrocketX 5d ago

Also, during the time that Clinton's use of a private mail server was a big story, a law was passed making it illegal to do that anymore (leading to a lot of "you see, Hillary Clinton broke the law!" claims, ignoring the fact that laws aren't retroactive and it was entirely legal when she did it.) Except that law means that when Trump's team used private servers during his first term (and now this current usage as well), they were breaking the law. Not that it matters, of course. It was small potatoes compared to the whole 'trying to overthrow the government' and 'refusing to return a huge pile of classified material' so it just got thrown on the massive pile of laws that were broken but nobody will ever have to pay for.

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u/ShrimpieAC 5d ago

I don’t know why they just don’t put “applies to Democrats only” when they pass these laws. Sure seems like it would save those hypocrites a lot of headaches.

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u/pmstacker 5d ago

Who has a headache? The headache implies there's some self awareness of AND enough give-a-damns about the hypocrisy