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The Democrats must believe that Trump can win if they are so concerned about his plans to have his Attorney General investigate Clinton

Trump not criminalizing politics by talk of jailing Hillary

By Rolf Yungclas ——--October 17, 2016

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The Obama-Clinton Democrats continue to show their blatant disregard of the law by making phony accusations of Trump that he is "criminalizing politics" with his remarks on the campaign trail and at the second Presidential candidate debate that Hillary Clinton should be jailed. The Democrats must believe that Trump can win if they are so concerned about his plans to have his Attorney General investigate Clinton if he is elected President. An Attorney General under a Donald Trump administration will still be able to prosecute Clinton for violation of the laws that current Attorney General Loretta Lynch refused to act upon. It wouldn't be double jeopardy since that only applies if the crime has been prosecuted and a judgment or verdict determined.
While, according to FBI Director James Comey, the acts of Hillary Clinton were not unlawful, it is only his false interpretation of the law, and not what the law actually says, that brought him to that conclusion. Comey's statement was a recommendation to Attorney General Loretta Lynch on whether or not to prosecute Hillary Clinton. But the actual wording in the law does make it illegal behavior. Comey made an additional interpretation of the law that is not actually in the law. Director Comey said he recommended against prosecuting Hillary Clinton because, in addition to the wording of the law, he also took into consideration "the context of a person's actions." As you can see below, that has nothing to do with the law code violation (18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information) that Comey illegally redefined so as not to recommend prosecuting Clinton:
"(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer--Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."
In response to Trump's stated plans to jail Ms. Clinton, the Democrats went on the attack on Twitter:

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Unprosecuted doesn't mean unlawful

But connections with Nixon's actions are absurd, since Nixon was attempting to obstruct justice by demanding his Attorney General fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate cover-up. In an NBC article, Ari Melber then came to a faulty conclusion after reading Holder's tweet:
"The FBI and Department of Justice have formally closed the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state. So the notion of a new president seeking to force the re-opening of the case, because a new party is in office, is essentially unprecedented."
That, however, is baloney. As we saw with Comey, unprosecuted doesn't mean unlawful. The law cannot be reinterpreted by the FBI Director to make it lawful. Attorney General Lynch's disregard for the law to not prosecute is, as I see it, an impeachable offense. Problem is, no Democrat in the Senate is going to follow the law above Democrat party line and convict Lynch on a House impeachment so she is removed from office. So the only way to prosecute Clinton's illegal actions is for a Trump administration Attorney General to file charges or to call a grand jury to determine what charges should be brought against Clinton. In addition, an Attorney General who is not willing to let Clinton slide on her violation of "18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information" would also have had to prosecute Ms. Clinton on a Title 18, Section 2071 charge, the penalty of which would disqualify her from holding office again:
"(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States." (my italics)
It's just too bad Hillary Clinton won't be charged and convicted before November 8.
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Rolf Yungclas——

Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years

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