WaPo editor downplays Hillary Clinton's email scandal: Mostly 'cooking recipes and appointments'

Fox News ^ | 7/31/23 | Lindsay Kornick

[Libloather]

There is "no similarity" between Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and Donald Trump’s classified document scandal, according to Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart.

Capehart addressed the comparison on Friday’s "PBS Newshour" in a panel with fellow Washington Post contributor Gary Abernathy discussing Trump’s ongoing legal issues. Host Geoff Bennett brought up the former secretary of state as both she and Trump have been accused of concealing classified information, but Capehart suggested that there was no "symmetry."

"[I]f we have learned anything from the four years of Donald Trump's presidency and his campaign leading up to it and the campaign to try to get reelected, he's the master of projection. Anything that he accuses someone else of doing, whether it's Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, you name them, he has either done it himself for real or would really like to do it," Capehart said.

He continued, "And what we're discovering now is that he has done all of the things he has accused Hillary Clinton of doing, actually done. The e-mails that they found on Secretary Clinton's server, a lot of them had to do with cooking recipes and appointments. None had to do with nuclear secrets and secrets about our allies. And you just can't — there's no parallel. There is no symmetry. There is no similarity at all."

Abernathy pointed out that former FBI Director James Comey revealed that there were several classified emails found on Clinton’s private server.

"Well, actually, Director Comey pointed out that a lot of her things that they found on her server were classified and probably were accessed by foreign agents," Abernathy said. "I mean, this is something they said probably happened. So we don't know if they were nuclear secrets. Of course, we don't know about all the ones that were deleted...

[Flash Bazbeaux]

“Beyond Top Secret”

There is no “beyond Top Secret”. There is compartmentalized information.

[Chewbarkah]

I agree that there is no comparison. Clinton ran an illegal server to evade oversight of her criminal activities. She wasn’t President and had no authority to declassify documents. Her recklessness led to her exposing masive amounts of real-time communications to foreign adversaries.

Trump by contrast retained items the government already possessed and had the legal authority to do so. Yep, no comparison at all.

[Vaduz]

The MSM trying to cover up all the scars party members have left to make the party look good for the next tsar.