Aggh, I think I lost a big post of mine I was writing up....
Short version:
Hillary's corruption charges have been thoroughly investigated- and in fact, are not in fact charges, merely allegations, because all the investigations have been whether there *is* evidence of wrongdoing enough to even *start* a case, and even though these investigations have been some of the most extensive of all time, costing millions and run by her enemies, the answer is, "No, no they are not."
E-mails? Breaks regulation, but the Republican FBI director says they *never* charge people for that stuff, and also the only 'classified' information is not-actually-important stuff (like Drone Program information publicly released by the NYT the week before), sent between cleared parties for the purpose of making work easier.
Benghazi? Not in charge of defense there to begin with and proven to be guilty of nothing but 'being in charge while Clinton'.
Clinton Foundation? "A" rating on Charity Watch, a higher-than-normal 87% of it's money going to help rather than overhead, and the 'access' that people gained from it... turned out to be philanthropists involved in charity work.
Heck, the Whitewater Investigator- remember the first big Clinton scandal?- *Endorsed* her a few days ago, 'cause she's not corrupt and he knows it.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has bribed state attorney generals involved in cases investigating him defrauding others out of payment, the Trump foundation has used charity money to fight lawsuits directed against him, he wants to form a deportation force and believes in pre-emptive warfare and doesn't get why we just can't use nukes, he's lost multiple discrimination lawsuits, he wants to ban religions, and he takes advantage of business partners as a matter of course.
"Just because Trump is horrible doesn't make Clinton not corrupt," is a statement that assumes the latter, but it doesn't change that unless she is a Ninja Wizard, the evidence says she's
not corrupt, just tight-fisted with information and inclined to make some calls for expedience, breaking rules at times but nothing actually significant, according to the investigations *of her enemies*.
It doesn't matter where Wild Zontargs is politically, I've seen the same thing come from Green Party people, people who really really wish Bernie was in the race still, and similar. It's a lazy belief by those who don't like the major parties or who want to feel smug by saying whatever they believe is better than those who actually do make a call, but simply doesn't fit the facts. It's assuming guilt based on ignoring investigations, plus lots of eyebrow waggling.
FireNexus wrote:This fucking election. From "Trump might be President" to "We might get back the House, the senate and a couple of swing state houses" in 14 days. I don't think I can take this bipolar shit for much longer.
The House is going to be pretty darn hard even if there's a D wave.
But yea, this has swung around.