The Wall Street Journal is fed up with the biased media coverage of the 2016 Presidential election and pulled no punches in an article by Kimberly Strassel, a member of their editorial board.
Strassel points out, it's almost impossible to turn on the TV without hearing about Trump's "lewd" comments while coverage of Hillary "uniformly ignores the flurry of bombshells" from WikiLeaks, FOIA releases and FBI interviews.
Even if voters had the TV on 24/7, they probably haven’t heard the nation now has proof of pretty much everything Hillary has been accused of.
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A June 2015 email to Clinton staffers from Erika Rottenberg, the former general counsel of LinkedIn:
- Ms. Rottenberg wrote that none of the attorneys in her circle of friends “can understand how it was viewed as ok/secure/appropriate to use a private server for secure documents AND why further Hillary took it upon herself to review them and delete documents.”
- She added: “It smacks of acting above the law and it smacks of the type of thing I’ve either gotten discovery sanctions for, fired people for, etc.”
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A few months later in a September 2015 email, a Clinton confidante Neera Tanden fretted that Mrs. Clinton was too bullheaded to acknowledge she’d done wrong.
“Everyone wants her to apologize,” wrote Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress.
“And she should. Apologies are like her Achilles’ heel.”
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Clinton staffers debated how to evade a congressional subpoena of Mrs. Clinton’s emails—three weeks before a technician deleted them.
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The campaign later employed a focus group to see if it could fool Americans into thinking the email scandal was part of the Benghazi investigation (they are separate) and lay it all off as a Republican plot.
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Meanwhile, only Fox News reported that according to an anonymous source within the FBI the "vast majority" of the people that worked on Hillary's case thought she should be prosecuted adding that "it was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton’s] security clearance yanked."
The source said FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic July 5 announcement that he would not recommend to the Attorney General’s office that the former secretary of state be charged left members of the investigative team dismayed and disgusted.
“No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case agreed, with the decision not to prosecute -- it was a top-down decision,” said the source, whose identity and role in the case has been verified by FoxNews.com.
A high-ranking FBI official told Fox News that while it might not have been a unanimous decision, “It was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton’s] security clearance yanked.”
“It is safe to say the vast majority felt she should be prosecuted,” the senior FBI official told Fox News.
“We were floored while listening to the FBI briefing because Comey laid it all out, and then said ‘but we are doing nothing,’ which made no sense to us.”
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The Wall Street Journal points out the Obama administration was "working as an extension of the Clinton campaign" with both the State Department and DOJ providing frequent updates to Hillary staffers about the supposedly a confidential criminal investigation into her misconduct.
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Worse, Mrs. Clinton’s State Department, as documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show, took special care of donors to the Clinton Foundation.
In a series of 2010 emails, a senior aide to Mrs. Clinton asked a foundation official to let her know which groups offering assistance with the Haitian earthquake relief were “FOB” (Friends of Bill) or “WJC VIPs” (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs).
Those who made the cut appear to have been teed up for contracts.
Those who weren’t?
Routed to a standard government website.
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The head of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Ira Magaziner, suggested in a 2011 email that Bill Clinton call Sheikh Mohammed of Saudi Arabia to thank him for offering the use of a plane.
In response, a top Clinton Foundation official wrote: “Unless Sheikh Mo has sent us a $6 million check, this sounds crazy to do.”
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Strassel also wrote the "leaks also show that the press is in Mrs. Clinton’s pocket."
While the WikiLeaks emails reveal substantial coordination between Clinton and the press perhaps none are more disturbing than when Donna Brazile, now DNC chair, sent the exact wording of a CNN town hall question to Hillary ahead of a scheduled debate.
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Other media allowed the Clinton camp to veto which quotes they used from interviews, worked to maximize her press events and offered campaign advice.
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Leaked speeches prove that she has two positions (public and private) on banks; two positions on the wealthy; two positions on borders; two positions on energy.
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Her team had endless discussions about what positions she should adopt to appease “the Red Army”—i.e. “the base of the Democratic Party.”
Strassle concluded by saying that:
"Voters might not know any of this, because while both presidential candidates have plenty to answer for, the press has focused solely on taking out Mr. Trump.
And the press is doing a diligent job of it."
