RNC Spokesman: Comey Offered ‘Clear Indictment’ Of Clinton’s Judgment

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Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer said Tuesday that Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server was a “clear indictment of Hillary Clinton’s judgement.”

Comey called Clinton’s use of private email and the State Department’s handling of classified information “extremely careless,” but he still advised against prosecuting Clinton.

Spicer told CNN in an interview after his tweet that any other staffer at the State Department would have been charged .

“Any other employee that works at the State Department that did what she did would have their security clearance pulled and would be facing charges,” Spicer said. “This is absolutely ridiculous.”

“If she followed the law like everybody else and used a State Department account or used even a private system like the director pointed out like Gmail, this wouldn’t be a problem,” Spicer said. “She chose to set up a system for herself around the rules that were established for everybody else for a reason, and that reason is because she didn’t want people to know what she was doing.”

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  1. “Indictment”—I do not think that word means what you think that word means.

  2. Maybe if Clinton had included sheriff’s badge on all her correspondence there wouldn’t be any red flags?

  3. Yeah, um, Sean - Speaker Ryan just admitted straight up that Rump’s tweets were anti-semitic. Tell me again - what does indictment mean?

  4. Bitch, please! Your party is about to nominate for President one of the stupidest, most dangerous, and biggest assholes in the history of American politics. You don’t get the right to scream about anybody else’s “judgement”, motherfucker.
    Oh, and one more thing, asshole: PETRAEUS - you know, that upstanding patriotic fucker who shared classified info with his bimbo, a man who you and your party defended to the fucking death.

  5. BREAKING!! Hillary indicted!!!
    (mumblemumble…for poor judgement)

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