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Krauthammer’s Take: Trump’s Russia Comment ‘Set a Trap That the Clinton Campaign Fell Into’
National Review ^ | 7/27/16 | NR Staff

Posted on 07/27/2016 7:39:30 PM PDT by randita

Krauthammer’s Take: Trump’s Russia Comment ‘Set a Trap That the Clinton Campaign Fell Into’

NR STAFF July 27, 2016 7:47 PM

Charles Krauthammer said tonight that the Clinton campaign contradicted itself by calling Donald Trump’s request for Russia to locate Hillary’s missing e-mails a threat to national security: Well, that was his parting shot, and it was a clever thing to plant, because it is an issue. But I do think there was something about his reference to Russia that, whether planned or not, was extremely clever.

I’m not the first to point out that it set a trap that the Clinton campaign fell right into. In that statement that you showed from the Clinton campaign, it said you’re [Trump] is inviting a foreign power to invade our national security.

Now, these are the e-mails she deleted because they were supposedly private; these were the ones that were supposedly not work-related; these are the ones where she discusses her yoga lessons and wedding planning. So if that what was really in the 30,000 deleted e-mails, then there’s no national security to be involved at all.

So the Clinton campaign ends up admitting that perhaps there really is work-related – if not classified – stuff in the e-mails that she deleted, which I think would be grounds for a charge of obstruction. Whether or not he meant it seriously – it could have been sarcastic, it could have been sort of half-sarcastic as a way to plant the idea – the fact is that it leaves the Clinton campaign in a complete contradiction.

If these are just private e-mails, then there is nothing to be concerned about. There is no espionage. There is no danger to national security that they will discover her yoga lesson schedule.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016dncconvention; clinton; dncleaks; emails; nationalsecurity; nongovemails; trap; trump; trumprussia; workrelated; yoga
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To: randita

Except that if they got the “yoga lesson” emails, they got the secret stuff too.


21 posted on 07/27/2016 7:56:55 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: randita

Sooner or later even Mr. Krauthammer sometimes comes to understand what we discuss on FR beforehand.


22 posted on 07/27/2016 7:58:43 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Kraut grudgingly admits Trump’s genius


23 posted on 07/27/2016 7:59:46 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: ctdonath2

Obviously, but Shrillary maintained that there was no “secret stuff” in the 30 odd thousand emails her staff deleted.


24 posted on 07/27/2016 8:01:32 PM PDT by randita
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To: randita
"David Burge ‏@iowahawkblog I can't believe Trump wants Russia to spy on Americans, when we have a whole cabinet level department for that."
25 posted on 07/27/2016 8:02:34 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: randita

It was also a jab at the media as he said in closing that the press would praise it.


26 posted on 07/27/2016 8:06:40 PM PDT by MHT (,`)
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To: randita

Ah yes, the smartest woman in the world.


27 posted on 07/27/2016 8:09:15 PM PDT by umgud (ban muslims, not guns)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Here’s exclusive video of Hillary’s yogi:

https://youtu.be/BuKu2exx8xQ


28 posted on 07/27/2016 8:09:20 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: JPJones

Exactly!


29 posted on 07/27/2016 8:11:54 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Big Red Badger
I hope someone is keeping track of all the times Trump is Spanking these jerks!

We're gonna win so much, you're gonna get tired of winning!

...and the band played on...

30 posted on 07/27/2016 8:13:17 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician, any politician, just say, "Remember Ceausescu"))
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To: Big Red Badger

It seems like the media is getting spanked too for their slavish devotion to democrats. Delicious.


31 posted on 07/27/2016 8:19:35 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Grampa Dave

Ka Ching


32 posted on 07/27/2016 8:21:46 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Antidote:


33 posted on 07/27/2016 8:25:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Trump IS the revolution)
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To: randita

Here’s a great one from, believe it or not, NBC:
“Dems Just Fell for Trump’s Russian email Hack Bait”
(They point out that he committed “grand theft convention’ and dems haven’t realized it yet. Very good read.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/27/the-democrats-just-fell-for-trumps-russian-email-hack-bait-commentary.html


34 posted on 07/27/2016 8:26:20 PM PDT by The Continental Op
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To: randita

Bump


35 posted on 07/27/2016 8:27:29 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Big Red Badger
I hope someone is keeping track of all the times Trump is Spanking these jerks!

We need to get Nachum on the job! :)

Although, he must be so busy with the List of Obama's missteps, failures, botched jobs, etc. ad nauseum. :)

36 posted on 07/27/2016 8:35:54 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: WildHighlander57; randita; All
“...If these are just private e-mails, then there is nothing to be concerned about. There is no espionage. ...”

Some other FReepers have mentioned today that since these emails were not on a secure government server, and instead on her home server, wherever that was, that by definition, there is no espionage.

I wish I could remember who said that.

Hillary brought this all upon herself.

37 posted on 07/27/2016 8:43:37 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: Grampa Dave; randita; All

And by the way, who sends/receives 30,000 emails on yoga and their daughter’s wedding!!!?

It is simply not believable.


38 posted on 07/27/2016 8:47:10 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: randita

Even the Kraut doesn’t get it.

Trump joked about Russia giving us the emails - that have ALREADY been hacked some years ago - and that she subsequently, illegally, deleted from her computer - so could not now BE hacked...

and the dems and their lapdogs, the media are screaming ‘espionage” - - all designed to get the headlines and keep people from paying attention to what is in the emails -

Are they really all that dumb or do they just think we all are?


39 posted on 07/27/2016 8:54:04 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (A Christian is as a Christian does - "By their works...")
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To: The Continental Op; All

Great piece LoL

Thanks for the link!

everyone should read this so’s they can get their conversation straight when their liberal friends throw it in your face, thinking they’ve “AH Ha” got one on Trump.

Explain it slowly - the emails were already hacked some years ago - and then Hitlery illegally deleted them from her servers - they are NOT THERE to be hacked anymore.

Trump was joking about - if you have ‘em’, share ‘em”

GOT IT, LOL?

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/27/the-democrats-just-fell-for-trumps-russian-email-hack-bait-commentary.html


40 posted on 07/27/2016 9:08:20 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (A Christian is as a Christian does - "By their works...")
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