Hillary's Emails v. Trump's Boxes ft. Opening Arguments

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  • @LegalEagle
    @LegalEagle  Před rokem +262

    👮‍♂ Lock her/him/them up?
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    • @happyninja42
      @happyninja42 Před rokem +14

      Yes!! An Opening Arguments crossover! 👏👏Been waiting for this for a long time!

    • @dennisossianderrmplmtcst2053
      @dennisossianderrmplmtcst2053 Před rokem +1

      W e l l d o n e , b l e a c h , b l e a c h

    • @prismblack9631
      @prismblack9631 Před rokem

      Can we lock both of them up in the same cell, film them 24/7, and edit it into a reality TV show?

    • @adamdubin1276
      @adamdubin1276 Před rokem

      Exile them both to opposite corners of the Earth until everyone forgets they both exist? YES PLEASE!

    • @RhizometricReality
      @RhizometricReality Před rokem +7

      Where's Trump's text messages

  • @bretsheeley4034
    @bretsheeley4034 Před rokem +2529

    As someone who works in software development and has previously worked under government contracts with a security clearance, the lack of security from these people in the highest positions is both migraine inducing and... not one damn bit surprising.
    I'm just going to go into a corner and cry now.

    • @paladin677
      @paladin677 Před rokem +91

      And it seemed to get worse the higher you went up the ladder.

    • @Secret_Moon
      @Secret_Moon Před rokem +130

      Like, for real. Even students of a university need to use the school domain account in order to get access to the school server, library, teaching materials, certificates, etc. or to make any communication with the school staffs.

    • @Nevertoleave
      @Nevertoleave Před rokem +54

      We teach kids how to type, but adults never really got taught safety on the internet or with their computer

    • @paperburn
      @paperburn Před rokem +9

      I feel your pain

    • @patrickjordan2233
      @patrickjordan2233 Před rokem +46

      @@Nevertoleave I'd suggest it's worse? Plenty of parents preach "safety, vet, verify, and skepticism" to their kids, concerning internet information, then proceed themselves to click on "links" posted on the SM websites, without even a clue on how to read the link routing tagline...(as only one example..)
      "Do as I say, not as I do..."?said Parents since the beginning of time? 😂😂

  • @jbchap996
    @jbchap996 Před rokem +3856

    I'd almost forgotten he'd requested another nation do espionage on his political opponent

    • @erikdayne5429
      @erikdayne5429 Před rokem +459

      “For you, the time Trump broke this law was the most important day of your life. For Trump, it was Tuesday.”

    • @mloftus8618
      @mloftus8618 Před rokem

      That’s right, he was impeached by the House for this. A major crime, yet everyone on one side forgets because they don’t discuss it and sugar coat it when they do

    • @spiderzvow1
      @spiderzvow1 Před rokem +243

      @@erikdayne5429 laws are for poor people.

    • @orlandogreenhow2870
      @orlandogreenhow2870 Před rokem +305

      Didn’t he even try to strong arm Ukraine into doing the espionage by threatening to withdraw aid if they didn’t?

    • @Deladus
      @Deladus Před rokem +166

      Multiple times. Impeached for doing the same with Ukraine.

  • @zarahandrahilde9554
    @zarahandrahilde9554 Před 11 měsíci +110

    It still cracks me up that you had a president that needed to be told
    that injecting bleach was a bad idea

    • @ArDeeMee
      @ArDeeMee Před 11 měsíci

      Chubbyemu has a video on one guy taking something like that…

    • @erisgh0sted961
      @erisgh0sted961 Před 10 měsíci +7

      I wish I could laugh at the prideful ignorance of some very small, but loudly destructive portion of my fellow country men and women.

    • @ArDeeMee
      @ArDeeMee Před 10 měsíci +6

      @@erisgh0sted961 I know what you mean.. all of this sounds like satire, but then you realize that it is actually happening, and people are getting hurt or worse…

    • @zarahandrahilde9554
      @zarahandrahilde9554 Před 10 měsíci +4

      @@erisgh0sted961 give in to dark humor, theres nothing to do but laugh at it.

    • @ryanstewart2289
      @ryanstewart2289 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@erisgh0sted961The trumpturds aren't a very small minority.

  • @lady_bexy
    @lady_bexy Před rokem +1612

    Not to mention that Hillary sat for 12 hours answering questions to the committee and never once took the 5th

    • @WomenCallYouMoid
      @WomenCallYouMoid Před rokem +35

      @@willtheoct
      "TrImp fortress 2: She Won't be Prosocuted for her CrImEs" 😂

    • @WomenCallYouMoid
      @WomenCallYouMoid Před rokem +139

      Wow, she sat there for 12 hours? And Trump just screeched "I plead the fifth! The fifth!" and "mobsters plead the fifth."

    • @Londronable
      @Londronable Před rokem +272

      @@DingDingTheCZcamsBuddy
      While correct, most people that bring it up are talking about his hypocrisy. Him saying only guilty people plead the fifth...only to then plead the fifth repeatedly.

    • @Wasserkaktus
      @Wasserkaktus Před rokem +11

      @@willtheoct It's not a crime you simpleton: This video explains why.

    • @Wasserkaktus
      @Wasserkaktus Před rokem

      @@willtheoct How was Clinton involved in these wars?

  • @Maswartz226
    @Maswartz226 Před rokem +2611

    If literally anyone other than Trump did even a fraction of what he's accused of they'd be in jail by now.

    • @SSJ2Phenom
      @SSJ2Phenom Před rokem +335

      Right on the money. I mean we literally have audio, video, and documented PROOF that he's broken several laws. That one phone call to the GA SOS alone was him committing 3 federal felonies and 2 GA state felonies. That one thing should have a mandatory minimum sentence of 8 years.
      That's just ONE!!!

    • @SonsOfLorgar
      @SonsOfLorgar Před rokem +47

      They would probably be awaiting a date for termination aswell.

    • @Khronogi
      @Khronogi Před rokem

      @@SSJ2Phenom also mueller report showing he broke the law multiple times. Also asking foreign governments to assist in an ongoing election.

    • @rainwolfj
      @rainwolfj Před rokem +1

      You can expand this to a LOT of the political operators who helped Trump do what he did. There aren't 2 systems of Justice in America, one rich, one poor. There's like 70 systems of Justice depending on your Financial, Political, and Societal standing, as well as a bunch of other factors.
      If you're poor and uncared for enough, American justice is just cops rolling up and shooting you within 12 seconds of arrival. Rich and Politically connected? After about 7 years they may get around to slapping your wrist.

    • @erikdayne5429
      @erikdayne5429 Před rokem +1

      I still don’t get how he’s gotten away with January 6th. He literally spent months saying the election was rigged, organized a rally the same day Congress was certifying the results, and told his supporters to go to the capitol and fight like hell. I’m not sure what I’m missing here, seems to me to be a pretty straight line with the obvious intent to try to overturn an election, which is treason.

  • @ronaldeliascorderocalles
    @ronaldeliascorderocalles Před rokem +3415

    My God, every Trump comment about Russia ages 10 times worse every day.

    • @ThisAintAStupidName
      @ThisAintAStupidName Před rokem +223

      Ages like a fine glass of milk :)

    • @AegixDrakan
      @AegixDrakan Před rokem +148

      It's aged like fine piss, if you get the reference. :P

    • @loowyatt6463
      @loowyatt6463 Před rokem +44

      If trump was in power Putin wouldn't of invaded. Trump would of been much more heavy handed with the Ukraine situation.

    • @eszrah5129
      @eszrah5129 Před rokem +1

      @@loowyatt6463 Are you on drugs? Dump has Putler's dick so far up his ass he stands funny.

    • @dirtydish6642
      @dirtydish6642 Před rokem +491

      @@loowyatt6463 Step out of that bubble dude, get some fresh air and views.

  • @theFLCLguy
    @theFLCLguy Před rokem +75

    Lock every politician up when they break a law. Stop treating them different than regular citizens.

    • @rsr789
      @rsr789 Před 11 měsíci +6

      And start using the death penalty for serious crimes, like treason, sedition, and public corruption.

    • @Nopenopenope6969
      @Nopenopenope6969 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@rsr789That is a TERRIBLE idea. Imagine a politician like Trump being able to EXECUTE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH HIM. Bro.

  • @pantitapalittapongarnpim1581

    I'm only ten minutes into the video, and it seems to me like the entire congress and their aids needs to take a course on information security --- regularly.

    • @DAG_42
      @DAG_42 Před rokem +19

      That's the nice thing about being the people who make the laws. No nuisance training

    • @BogeyTheBear
      @BogeyTheBear Před rokem

      Congress is a legislative body of the people-- and _people_ are lazy animals.

    • @AirConditioner402
      @AirConditioner402 Před rokem +14

      I can't believe they let such small mistakes slide. This seems like a case of the user not knowing how technology works. Dear god.

    • @marcusdavey9747
      @marcusdavey9747 Před rokem

      Trump and Clinton are both technophobes, both used devices improperly, both had side-hustles that intersected with their gov. positions. The difference is Trump doesn’t see any reason the two should be separate, it’s all his grift. Clinton has at least some measure of integrity.

    • @loki768
      @loki768 Před 11 měsíci +3

      Yeah, I’ve been proctoring training on information security for over a decade. That shit NEVER sticks.

  • @Bigandrewm
    @Bigandrewm Před rokem +160

    It's a very weird defense for Trump that if Clinton's email handling was criminal, then his own handling of classified information was not. It's an argument that falls apart for grade-schoolers.

    • @bobbobber4810
      @bobbobber4810 Před rokem +6

      Yep. This is like someone was like:
      "You can send me in jail because you think I killed a man, there is that guy who stole a pen and didn't got arrested!"
      That argument is totally invalid.

    • @VincentWeisTheThird
      @VincentWeisTheThird Před rokem +4

      It's not a legal defense, it's a political argument, insofar as the DOJ is still an executive department that assists the president. It's right that it wouldn't matter in court, but it is important in terms of whether the executive branch is being prudent or not.

    • @guitart4909
      @guitart4909 Před rokem +5

      He wouldn’t pass philosophy 101 with that argument

    • @rsr789
      @rsr789 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@guitart4909 He didn't pass school: his rich daddy paid for him to graduate.

    • @rsr789
      @rsr789 Před 11 měsíci

      @@VincentWeisTheThird When speaking of crimes, political arguments are irrelevant.

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat Před rokem +394

    Phrase: "That's above my pay grade"
    Meaning: "They don't pay me enough to lie"

    • @shoesncheese
      @shoesncheese Před rokem +17

      Exactly my thought, too.

    • @jamesb3497
      @jamesb3497 Před rokem +39

      Alternatively: "they don't pay me enough for me to know the answer."

    • @warlordofbritannia
      @warlordofbritannia Před rokem +12

      When your own spokesman is pleading the fifth, you’ve done screwed the pooch

    • @felironmaden1429
      @felironmaden1429 Před rokem +10

      Yeah, i found that one pretty funny, considering how many of trumps employees have quit because he refused to pay them.

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert Před rokem +9

      @@jamesb3497 Or "I don't know the answer but I'm not stupid enough to lie."

  • @TheWinerdar
    @TheWinerdar Před rokem +395

    I'm tired of hearing about her emails. Trump had four years to prosecute her regarding her emails and chose not to.

    • @andrewh.4186
      @andrewh.4186 Před rokem +67

      AND THEN ran off with all these documents.

    • @DougGlendower
      @DougGlendower Před rokem +23

      I still don't know how to send preishable dairy products via USPS standard rate, so I'm baffled by the Buttery Mails.

    • @walfiend2
      @walfiend2 Před rokem +8

      @@DougGlendower no, it's buttery males

    • @FighteroftheNightman
      @FighteroftheNightman Před rokem +2

      ​@@andrewh.4186literally every President and VP has done that. Did you miss the part where pence Obama and biden did it too?

    • @andrewh.4186
      @andrewh.4186 Před rokem +74

      @@FighteroftheNightman Yeah, I did miss the part where they made their whole campaign about the protection of top-secret documents, THEN took a whole pile of them out of office with them (everyone does this part), THEN refused to cooperate with the government, insisting they had turned over everything on several occasions but in fact didn't even turn over a significant portion, all while holding them in a not remotely secure location.
      Yeah, I missed that part.
      By the way, did you miss the part where everyone else cooperated with the government in getting them returned? Because I didn't.

  • @DannyGoLively
    @DannyGoLively Před rokem +148

    Parents, please don't let your kids play in dumpsters!!! There may be classified information in there... or needles!!!

    • @klisterklister2367
      @klisterklister2367 Před rokem +10

      Think of the children!

    • @ShapeShiftedIntoMyCat
      @ShapeShiftedIntoMyCat Před rokem

      OMFG thank y'all for reminding me to check the dumpster first for classified documents and last but definitely least; check for open needles before I allow my son to play in there.
      Y'all are doing the Lord's work by saving the world via satire.

    • @DougGlendower
      @DougGlendower Před rokem +1

      Or trash pandas!

    • @GreaterSeraph
      @GreaterSeraph Před rokem +2

      ​@@DougGlendower I am now just imagining how dangerous a raccoon might be with nuclear secrets.
      I mean, the actual answer is "Not at all", but... What if... 😂

    • @TheAnxiousAardvark
      @TheAnxiousAardvark Před rokem +2

      @@GreaterSeraph There used to be a fairly common "what if" discussion when evolutionary biologists and/or mammalogists got together over frosty malt beverages. One of the more memorable topics was "What if primates didn't exist?" There was a particularly good case being made for raccoons. Hands, thumbs, vision. Biggest issue was that they weren't social enough.

  • @nebulan
    @nebulan Před rokem +886

    This is why govt officials should be required to take the same training as the rest of us. I'm not even that connected to govt but im required to take security training, ethics training (bribes bad) and cyber training that they BOTH violated.

    • @nebulan
      @nebulan Před rokem +24

      10:15 seriously? How did he not know? They should be taking this training annually like the rest of us!

    • @ronifae8286
      @ronifae8286 Před rokem +84

      His staff reminded him constantly. He didn't give a damn. It was too much bother for him. Flushing notes down the toilet was preferable to sending them to the National Archives. Paranoia perhaps? Covering his behind?

    • @raistlarn
      @raistlarn Před rokem +25

      Also add some teeth to the laws for them too. If there were some repercussions 99% of these corrupt politicians would think twice when breaking the laws.

    • @cdjhyoung
      @cdjhyoung Před rokem +57

      Your comment brings up an entirely different topic: Isn't about time we insisted that the people running and holding office actually understand how those offices work, why they exist, and the impact they have on the citizens? I listen to some of the speeches by the far right, did these people EVER take a civics class? Did they sleep through the entire semester? Perhaps we should institute two new Constitutional Amendments: One, a political candidate must pass the same civics examine given to a foreigner applying to become a citizen of the US and PASS with a 90% score. The second is on the day the nominating petition is turned in, every financial account the candidates name is on is automatically forwarded to the Federal Government and becomes information available to the electorate. Prove you are smart enough for the job. Prove where your money is coming from.

    • @aaronmontgomery2055
      @aaronmontgomery2055 Před rokem +5

      any higher up are supposed to. They are required, even tarp.

  • @plainText384
    @plainText384 Před rokem +303

    Imagine playing in a dumpster and you find a bunch of CLASSIFIED air force secrets.

    • @TCMcBiscuits
      @TCMcBiscuits Před rokem

      And imagine if half the documents stated that the Air Force was a sham, air travel was a hoax, and airplanes really are strange metal birds, while the other half just said "HUNTER BIDEN" over and over again. Which was especially odd given that this was long enough ago that Hunter Biden was still in high school.

    • @jamiegagnon6390
      @jamiegagnon6390 Před rokem +6

      Like Jack O'Neill's home address... ;-)

    • @JLF201
      @JLF201 Před rokem +15

      And then you take them home and put them under the bed because... ?

    • @julietardos5044
      @julietardos5044 Před rokem

      @@jamiegagnon6390 🤣🤣🤣

    • @rollerskdude
      @rollerskdude Před rokem +23

      ​​@@JLF201 "Cool classified folder dude! Nobody's gonna believe me if I tell them I found this... I have to take them, then everyone will believe me!"
      *Then proceeds to show off to brothers, sisters or friends and then proceed to completely forget about them or just realises they don't care.
      You know, classic kid stuff.

  • @tiggy4591
    @tiggy4591 Před rokem +72

    I think it is funny he thought "she did it too" was a good defense.
    Even though in fact her crime was different from his, because he wasn't technically supposed to have access to those documents anymore.
    And she was supposed to have access to the documents she potentially was mishandling. Different crimes, different times.

    • @StoryMing
      @StoryMing Před rokem +12

      And different levels and degrees of culpability.

  • @simonharris4873
    @simonharris4873 Před rokem +38

    Clinton never tried to suggest that anyone planted anything on her mail server either, so there's that.

    • @davyt0247
      @davyt0247 Před rokem +6

      And she sat before the Senate judiciary committee for twelve hours, not once did she take the 5th. She answered every single question.

  • @mollywantshugs5944
    @mollywantshugs5944 Před rokem +311

    The big takeaway is that holding political office should require taking a class on cyber security

    • @whocares9033
      @whocares9033 Před rokem +28

      That's a good way to make sure our leaders aren't too old lol

    • @matthewgagnon9426
      @matthewgagnon9426 Před rokem +31

      They do take it. What they need to do is be forced to pay attention and be treated even more severely than the lowest tier grunt is treated for the same infraction. The greater someone's authority the greater a standard they should be held to. It's the only way to get leaders who aren't crooked.

    • @peggedyourdad9560
      @peggedyourdad9560 Před rokem +16

      @@matthewgagnon9426 I feel like they should at least be quizzed afterwards to prove their attention. Everything else yes, the more power someone has the more scrutiny they should be under since a mistake coming from that high up could potentially spell disaster.

    • @erdelf
      @erdelf Před rokem

      why ?
      they have people for that.

    • @abbersj2935
      @abbersj2935 Před rokem +4

      Maybe a bigger takaway is to vet applicants who wish to run for office better.

  • @fleurpouvior2967
    @fleurpouvior2967 Před rokem +465

    I interned in state department over seas, and both my parents worked in the government with sensitive information. The differences between the two cases, is like jaywalking, vs armed robbery, with himself perpetrating the heist. The security and protocol around the stuff that was taken is insanely high, and how the documents were taken gives people who have worked under 3 administrations, panic attacks. Not to say it was complex, but it was clear theft, with intent. If he were anyone else, he and everyone associated with it, would probably end up dissapearing quietly.

    • @TKUltra971
      @TKUltra971 Před rokem +54

      Exactly, Jared didn't get that billion dollar investment from the Saudis for a book club.

    • @paulahik211
      @paulahik211 Před rokem +18

      ​@@TKUltra971 2 billion, wasn't it?

    • @patrickjordan2233
      @patrickjordan2233 Před rokem +16

      @@paulahik211 2.2 B

    • @aaronmontgomery2055
      @aaronmontgomery2055 Před rokem +7

      Yeah but in terms DOJ and what is supposed to happen they should both be prosecuted. In comparison even confidential FOUO will get you court martialed so they are doing armed robbery and the other multiple armed robbery plus grand theft. Specifically intent to that top secret spillage doesn't matter. Whether negligent or intentional all of this is basic training that all government employees and contractors are forced to take. It is cyber defense training. It is very clearly stated with examples like the one in clinton's case (almost exactly since at least 2013) to be wrong. Now trump's case is even worse and I don't think that needs to be said how much worse it is.

    • @Gretabpooh
      @Gretabpooh Před rokem

      ​@@aaronmontgomery2055 Clinton was out of office by 2012. Laws were changed AFTER she left office.

  • @cassie668
    @cassie668 Před rokem +153

    Trump will always call ‘unfair’ when he’s treated fairly for his actions - it’s only fair in his mind when he’s allowed to do whatever he wants without repercussions.

    • @carloszapata847
      @carloszapata847 Před 11 měsíci +4

      That is the life philosophy of the Marquis de Sade.

  • @jeremyedwards2453
    @jeremyedwards2453 Před rokem +130

    It seems like they need to rewrite the law so that even unintentional mishandling of documents had penalties. You can be fired at my company if you mishandle potential phishing emails even if nothing bad happens. Shouldn't we expect some level of competence from our public servants?

    • @blackrock1961
      @blackrock1961 Před rokem +1

      The law already specifies that gross negligence is a violation and that it is punishable by a fine, imprisonment up to 10 years, or both. Comey misstated the law when he said that the FBI was not recommending prosecution because there was no evidence of intent. Intent is not a requirement. Clinton's unsecured email server violated the law. Trump probably violated the law. Biden has probably violated the law as well. People have already been imprisoned for negligently storing classified information in an improper way. They just weren't people in power like Clinton, Trump, and Biden. Which is why they did not get away with it.

    • @han090
      @han090 Před rokem +2

      Doesn't really matter here, since it was clearly intentional.

    • @jeremyedwards2453
      @jeremyedwards2453 Před rokem +5

      It matters because they don't seem to be applying the law equally. Besides the fact that classified documents need to be kept classified, it's not a game or at least it shouldn't be. Trump, Hilary, Biden and anyone else mishandling these documents should all have to answer for it.

    • @MrFlarespeed
      @MrFlarespeed Před 10 měsíci +1

      There shouldn't be legal penalties, but there definitely should be consequences

    • @AaronWoodburn
      @AaronWoodburn Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@jeremyedwards2453the entire video is about how the two cases are distinct. Trump did this to himself, and law is quite the pandora's box- you can't draw the ire of NARA and expect to walk away just because somone else saw a secret document once, or held a document once, or even if they also had to be reminded to return documents they shouldn't have. It isn't outside the norm for this to happen. Trump refused, twice, and conspired to hide boxes of documents from NARA, even going as far as to have his valet lie to his lawyers to convince them he'd returned everything he had.

  • @matthewnardin7304
    @matthewnardin7304 Před rokem +341

    Just to keep the numbers in perspective. I'm a TSgt in the USAF and have over 10,000 emails in my account. At least half of those are things that could be considered "not my mf'ing problem" but I get them anyway. So 30,000 emails for the secretary of state doesn't really seem like a lot.

    • @midnightwolfwarrior
      @midnightwolfwarrior Před rokem

      Ye, at higher levels of state, emails get thrown around like rain in a monsoon. Everything needs an email, from requisition forms to distribution of assets to campaign projections to something as idiotic as that bitch/bastard from that one department causing their fourth problem this week.

    • @jimmywoolever798
      @jimmywoolever798 Před rokem +86

      I onced worked for a medical company, and as soon as I got an email account it was already littered with 10,000+ emails. Basically, every email ever addressed to my department was automatically sent to me. So yeah, 30k+ for Secretary of State is actually quite reasonable.

    • @redaethel4619
      @redaethel4619 Před rokem +35

      Yeah the boss tends to get CC’d on absolutely everything.

    • @WhatIsTheWheel
      @WhatIsTheWheel Před rokem +14

      Sergeant in a state prison, 4270 emails in the last twelve months

    • @4niasomnia573
      @4niasomnia573 Před rokem +34

      I just work as a quality engineer in MedTech and apparently having a LinkedIn profile means I consented to literally every pharma and safety magazine's newsletter and "here's a 1 hour webinar we're running and we're charging you $1,000 to attend!". Some of these send out 20 emails a day EACH and I unsubscribe but somehow I get resubscribed. I have 600 emails in my spam folder just from October until now. The amount of emails makes sense especially if they're looking at everything pulled from the server.

  • @CityPlannerPlaysChair
    @CityPlannerPlaysChair Před rokem +159

    I might have committed a crime but you can't investigate me until you investigate everybody else. It's not fair!

    • @QuarrySea
      @QuarrySea Před rokem +65

      “Who cares if I murdered someone! Until you arrest all people who got in a fistfight, you can’t hold me accountable!” - Donald Trump’s legal defense

    • @hotdicksonrice
      @hotdicksonrice Před rokem +6

      Real Trump legal strategy^

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert Před rokem +1

      Clinton was investigated but it was deemed that she was innocent. She was a moron but she wasn't a criminal.

  • @derekstein6193
    @derekstein6193 Před rokem +118

    As mothers like to say, "I don't care about what that other kid did, we are talking about YOU."
    Even if Clinton got preferential treatment (doubtful), that does not exonerate the Cheeto Bandito from his own misconduct. Try that kind of argument in a courtroom:
    Defendant: Your honor, I found a record of somebody in the past who did something similar to what I did and that person wasn't prosecuted. Therefore, this case should be dismissed."
    Judge: "This court case is based around your actions; nobody else is on trial here. If that other person is to be tried, that is another judge's business. You are on trial here, and any verdict obtained here will be based on your actions, nobody else's. Denied."

    • @jamalsachleben3026
      @jamalsachleben3026 Před rokem +9

      That is a part of a valid defense tho?
      In law, there is a large amount of "I found a record where that was similar to my case so I should have ." This is what an argument about precedent is.
      Though, the prosecute will make the exact same argument, pointing instead to cases of negligence, like those outlined in the video, or espionage. At this point a deliberation of the facts occurs and then a Jury decides which case it's more like.

    • @rileycorrigan5593
      @rileycorrigan5593 Před rokem +18

      @@jamalsachleben3026 It's a good point, but precedent is a little more specific than that. Precedent (usually) occurs when the case goes to appeal and the appellette judge makes a verdict espousing some legal principle. Precedent is not anything that happens in the past; it's a specific verdict made during a legal case. Whether or not someone is charged by the prosecutor is not precedent in the strict legal sense.

    • @FighteroftheNightman
      @FighteroftheNightman Před rokem +3

      How can you say doubtful? Her crimes are publicly known and she was never prosecuted for it

    • @jttimothy708
      @jttimothy708 Před rokem +2

      Cheeto Bandito 😂😂😂

    • @Nopenopenope6969
      @Nopenopenope6969 Před 11 měsíci +1

      ​@@FighteroftheNightmanName a crime she committed, lol

  • @ZarinaBlu
    @ZarinaBlu Před rokem +116

    Worked in IT for over 20 years. Desktop (software and hardware), server, network support, and the Clinton accusations just screams of every day stuff. Forgot to modify a deletion rule? No intent. Use a free utility? Any other time the government saving money would be applauded. Destruction of devices? I used to run a drill press through old phones and HDDs. (It was great for stress.) I remember when my parents told me with breathless glee that Clinton's phones had been smashed with a hammer which was "proof." (Of what I am not too sure.) Felt bad about laughing, ok I didn't, but seriously? Your PHI is on a HDDs and you want me to toss it in the trash undamaged?
    None of this is criminal.
    What is criminal is purposefully stealing classified documents because you think you are entitled to them. The first time around Trump tries to get Russia to hack/steal for him in order to increase his chances of being elected and the second time around everyone thinks he wouldn't ask for any less?
    Clear intent and motivation.
    If an E-5 was seriously in debt, swooned over various dictators, and took even one of those classified pages home with him, he would very likely spend the rest of his life in a cell. And not one of the "patriots" out there would be defending him. It's shameful.

    • @daemonspudguy
      @daemonspudguy Před 8 měsíci

      I assume a smashed phone is proof that someone in the Clinton household was stressed out and chose to take it out on an old, unused phone. Also known as Thursday.

  • @cbpd89
    @cbpd89 Před rokem +536

    As they saying goes, it's not the crime, but the cover up. Trump was given so much opportunity to cooperate, they wouldn't be considering prosecution if he had.

    • @Colopty
      @Colopty Před rokem +73

      He really could've gotten out of trouble so easily by just saying "oh shit, sorry, appears I have some documents you should come pick up asap", but that would require an ounce of humbleness that he can't even pretend to have.

    • @Caffin8tor
      @Caffin8tor Před rokem

      Let's not overlook that there's some compelling evidence that Hillary DID try to hide some of the evidence when first investigated. Not defending Trump here - he absolutely should be sent to prison.

    • @Parattchi
      @Parattchi Před rokem +33

      @@Colopty he could have even blamed someone else
      "Oh yes we found the documents, someone must have taken them, I don't know who but that was very bad and I dont like it*ramblinb continues for 30 minutes*"

    • @douglasdea637
      @douglasdea637 Před rokem

      What gets me is that documents were handed back to the government twice! In January and again in June with Trump's lawyer making a written promise that everything was found and given back. And yet this was a lie and there was still plenty more.
      Conservatives talk a huge deal about "weaponizing" the FBI. But the FBI bent way, way over backward in being lenient to Trump. Finally they acted a third time.

    • @lebrewski3103
      @lebrewski3103 Před rokem +16

      Worst, Trump accused her of doing it, so he can't pretend he didn't know it was wrong.

  • @brandontharp7922
    @brandontharp7922 Před rokem +72

    Unfortunately the people who NEED to see this video will refuse to watch it

    • @eastvandb
      @eastvandb Před rokem +4

      Most of them will never even know it exists.

    • @gparsons320
      @gparsons320 Před rokem +3

      And they'd just call it a bunch of lies even if they did watch it.

    • @kingleonidas4296
      @kingleonidas4296 Před rokem

      @@gparsons320 half truths are lies.

    • @eamonreidy9534
      @eamonreidy9534 Před rokem

      ​@@kingleonidas4296 explain

  • @loganl7547
    @loganl7547 Před rokem +73

    If the justification for being allowed to get away with a crime is that other people have gotten away with it then our laws have already lost all meaning.
    This whole "they didn't go after her!" thing is at best, the worst attempt at self defense one could conceive of in this situation, at worst is an admission of guilt; "I'm only guilty if she's also guilty" is essentially the same as saying "I'm guilty".
    If she did something wrong should she be prosecuted? Absolutely.
    If she did something wrong and ISN'T prosecuted, should everyone else just get a free pass to abscond with classified material? Absolutely not.
    I agree that IF there was wrong doing by both parties that it's a double standard to prosecute one and not the other, but that doesn't mean we should not prosecute either of them, no it means we should prosecute them both.

    • @paulpickett4522
      @paulpickett4522 Před rokem +3

      At first glance, I'd agree. But when it hits so heavy on who's going to get elected to office or not, it's a substantial way of potentially manipulating who is in control of a country - it's important that opposing factions are handled in consistent fashion. ....Like, really REALLY important.
      Also, the American legal system evidently leans QUITE heavily on past case history to determine what's the right course of action. It sure feels like each case should be able to stand on its own, but it consistently doesn't, and in this case... maybe it shouldn't...

    • @NeiasaurusCreations
      @NeiasaurusCreations Před rokem +4

      @@paulpickett4522 I'd contest this too, because precedents SHOULD change if the situation requires it. And there's also a first time for everything. For instance I'm sure the first person arrested relating to hacking, probably would've loved the idea of precedent being the only factor in the decision...Cause you know, no precedent. Conversely if there's a lot of precedent for something, but its clearly bad precedent causing people to continue to get away with stuff they wouldn't otherwise, we probably should go about setting a new one. By throwing the book at the next f*cker who tries it. And than if possible, going back and getting each and everyone who were given a pass due to prior precedent at least a second look. Cause as long as statues allow it, I see no reason why we wouldn't than go back and apply it retrospectively.
      I'm far less concerned with politics than I am about the law being actually effective at punishing people who victimize others in some way. Politics will always suck, and everyone on both sides sucks in any case, but doesn't mean they should get a pass at harming others. And in this case the seriousness of what's being concealed really DOES warrant the case being looked at by its own merits.

    • @MrJgracias
      @MrJgracias Před rokem

      The amount is irrelevant. One is too much. They should all go to jail. But americans don't fight depots anymore, we are all submissive pussys now.

    • @loganl7547
      @loganl7547 Před rokem +3

      @@paulpickett4522 fair enough, but if we're to treat them with an equally weighted hand then the value of the crime matters, a totality of 3 leaked documents containing no defense or critical infrastructure data being left on an email server being cared for by an American corporation is very different than boxes and boxes and boxes of classified defense and intelligence resource information being left in a room with a known adversarial foreign agent wandering the premises.
      These scenarios are not equal.
      That being said, I say bar them both for life from re entering a position that has ANY access to sensitive data, as clearly neither has sound judgement on the proper care and handling of such secrets important to the safety of the United States.

  • @reasonablyreliable
    @reasonablyreliable Před rokem +38

    So excited to see Opening Arguments Pod and Legal Eagle crossover again!

  • @eldibs
    @eldibs Před rokem +815

    At this point, Trump could sign an affidavit swearing that water is wet, and I would have to check for myself. Dude couldn't tell the truth if he was literally getting paid for it.

    • @ku8721
      @ku8721 Před rokem

      The real sad fact is Trump could testify under oath and lie that water was DRY and too many people would defend and believe it! A few would drown actually trying to prove it!

    • @whocares9033
      @whocares9033 Před rokem +78

      Good, because water isn't wet. It makes other things wet

    • @sofiadragon6520
      @sofiadragon6520 Před rokem +25

      Me, remembering the viral "water is not wet" argument that got turned into a song and nodding along, because you really do have to check sometimes if the sky is still blue on a cloudless day.

    • @iamcool544
      @iamcool544 Před rokem +20

      depending on how you slice it water actually isnt wet, since something being wet would have to be soaked in water and you cant put water on water.

    • @merphul
      @merphul Před rokem +15

      He got paid to put his name on Truth Social.
      That's about as close as he will ever get to promoting "truth".

  • @allisonhupp6596
    @allisonhupp6596 Před rokem +1236

    Anyone who randomly leaves top-secret nuclear documentation laying around should be prosecuted, I don't care who it is.

    • @LagMasterSam
      @LagMasterSam Před rokem +154

      That's the most infuriating thing about high ranking politicians. If a low ranking military member was even 0.01% as careless with classified information, they would be court martialed.

    • @nerfherder4284
      @nerfherder4284 Před rokem +1

      ...and someone who steals them, according to tRump himself, should be shot for treason. Again, his words, not mine.

    • @SourGummiWyrm69
      @SourGummiWyrm69 Před rokem +20

      Did anyone ever claim the nuclear briefcase left behind at Mar-a-Lago?

    • @jewella7731
      @jewella7731 Před rokem +2

      Might explain why she was asleep while Ben gazi went down during the killing of potential? witnesses

    • @markwilliams2620
      @markwilliams2620 Před rokem +55

      @@jewella7731
      English, botski.

  • @evanbarnes9984
    @evanbarnes9984 Před rokem +29

    I haven't even watched yet, I'm just SO EXCITED that you got Opening Arguments on! I listen to all of their episodes, truly the best podcast for understanding current events

  • @jmanj3917
    @jmanj3917 Před rokem +5

    Clowns to the Left of me, Jokers to the Right, Here i am, stuck in the middle...

  • @yobogoya4367
    @yobogoya4367 Před rokem +651

    I love how he claims that the documents are secure. Sir, you don't have a security clearance anymore, nor do you have the Need to Know. I don't care if you have them locked in a safe, which is locked in a safe, which is locked in a safe, which is locked in a safe, which is locked behind a bank vault door, at the bottom of the Marianas Trench...if you have any way of accessing them, they aren't secured.

    • @condorboss3339
      @condorboss3339 Před rokem

      Trump's security clearance should have been revoked January 21, *2017* (sic)

    • @markjapan4062
      @markjapan4062 Před rokem

      NONE OF THE PEOPLE AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES HAVE TOP SECRET CLEARANCE.... THEY ARE LIBARIANS.....THEY CAN STEAL SHIT TO...AND DO.

    • @traczebabe
      @traczebabe Před rokem +8

      He asked the FBI how he should store them. They told him, he followed their directions exactly. How about did you know obama left his papers in a furniture store? When the store closed, someone sent them to the library of Congress. Where obama was then notified and decided to take the librarian over the coals. For what? He lost those papers! I believe Clinton left his at a friend’s house, needlessly to say they are in the cosmos somewhere. somewhere. Every President receives their own set of papers from their time as President. It’s their responsibility to keep them safe. No one even knew where President Trump kept his except the secret service & FBI. They were secure. He still has clearance for anything that happened during his time as President. Like they all do! Do some research and learn how the system works.

    • @davidobriend8560
      @davidobriend8560 Před rokem +113

      @@traczebabe what's your source for those stories. Bc I'm pretty sure, they're not true.

    • @davidobriend8560
      @davidobriend8560 Před rokem

      @@traczebabe and it doesn't matter if trump asked the fed govt how to secure the documents. He didn't have a right to have them, they were subpoened, he refused. also top secret docs were in his closet and desk

  • @foxstele
    @foxstele Před rokem +622

    The part that concerns me the most about the FBI raid is all the empty 'Classified' folders they found.

    • @JakobNorthblood
      @JakobNorthblood Před rokem +153

      The...What?!
      * searched news articles *
      Yep, "43 empty folders with classified banners" were discovered by the FBI.

    • @majinshadow0516
      @majinshadow0516 Před rokem +123

      @@JakobNorthblood Best case, he hid them somewhere else. Worst case, he committed high treason and sold them off.

    • @no-lifenoah7861
      @no-lifenoah7861 Před rokem +41

      Good lord, that's so Orwellian. Trump definitely is taking some notes from the Ministry of Truth there.

    • @JakobNorthblood
      @JakobNorthblood Před rokem +45

      @@majinshadow0516 It's just as scary if someone else took them. Anyone with a key to that basement room could have taken those documents.

    • @MageSkeleton
      @MageSkeleton Před rokem +9

      @@majinshadow0516 wow has no one considered they were empty when he got them?!? Being a republic means we're not tribal. But honestly, if hitlery is never going to see a day in court neither should Trump.

  • @fourcatsandagarden
    @fourcatsandagarden Před rokem +40

    I know the people who are so far down this hole that they really need this video won't actually listen, but I'm glad you made it anyway. May it help everyone who is fed up with their 'lost down the rabbit hole' relatives.

  • @WackoMcGoose
    @WackoMcGoose Před rokem +6

    If this were /r/AITA, I'd give this a rating of _Everyone Sucks Here._ Hillary flat-out should not have been conducting government work (classified or not) on unsecured, civilian-run servers... but _the people she was emailing_ should also have been like "um, no, you're asking me to send official government stuff over a channel you shouldn't even have created, I'm going to refuse and insist you use your .gov email address for my own CYA". Likewise, Trump shouldn't have had all those documents post-presidency (and, arguably, _during_ his term, being president does not actually grant you Universal Need-To-Know), but _so many failsafe procedures_ should have stopped him from taking them... but _chose not to._ ESH, not just the two of them.

  • @RydarkVoyager
    @RydarkVoyager Před rokem +334

    Right out of school I joined DoD, and was part of review teams that went around to gov't contractors, grading them on how well they followed their documented procedures (including safeguarding classified material). I learned to be PARANOID about treating stuff with any markings from Confidential, to Secret, Top Secret and the differences between For Official Use Only (FOUO), No Foreign, Special Access Required (SAR), Special Compartmentalized Info (SCI), etc. While a lot to keep track of, it was simple to practice: whether you were Authorized, and did you Need To Know. As a private citizen, Trump and his cronies, didn't meet either criterion.

    • @adamsbja
      @adamsbja Před rokem +52

      My classified material training was half a day or so of "this is what it looks like. Don't touch it. If you see it somewhere it shouldn't be, this is who you tell. If you're allowed to touch it, you will be explicitly told by one of these people." My clearance never went high enough to need more, my brother's Limited clearance was basically the same thing but they spent a full day repeating it.
      I was amused when the photos of this material came out people were surprised it's really marked like in the movies instead of something more subtle. Subtle isn't the point; if you see it on the other side of the room you are supposed to be able to recognize it and take appropriate action without having to look at anything inside.

    • @slimmccoy8863
      @slimmccoy8863 Před rokem +20

      I think a lot of people are not aware of the "need to know" aspect. Just because you have the clearance does not mean you are authorized to have the documents.

    • @Taeerom
      @Taeerom Před rokem +12

      @@slimmccoy8863 Clearance basically doesn't mean shit. It's all about authorization (you don't get that without clearance, but that's the only way clearance matter). To get authorization you need a reason to be able to read the documents, and go through a local authorization process. And when you seize to need to know, then the authorization stops as well.
      Really, doesn't matter that I still have a clearance, as I no longer need to know anything, I can't get to know anything. There's no difference between me and anyone else. There's no difference between me and Trump, we both are not allowed to know classified info.

    • @TheWinerdar
      @TheWinerdar Před rokem

      I worked for a federally funded Head Start preschool program. The feds made us keep all the child and family files in a locked file cabinet and sign a paper inside every time someone accessed it.
      So Trump had lower standards than the feds require on confidential children files.

    • @Melesniannon
      @Melesniannon Před rokem +12

      @@adamsbja Ugh, this reminds me of a conversation I had with a Trumpist on this subject. The guy's actual defense was, "Of course he had to read the classified document, how else was he supposed to know if it was for him or actually classified?"
      Because. It. Says. CLASSIFIED. On. The. Cover.

  • @earthknight60
    @earthknight60 Před rokem +594

    There absolutely has been a double standard. Trump has been given *far* more leeway than anyone else has ever been given.

    • @bemasaberwyn55
      @bemasaberwyn55 Před rokem

      When your supporters are blowing Supreme court justices it happens

    • @LynetteTheRogue
      @LynetteTheRogue Před rokem +16

      This

    • @TS-bj8my
      @TS-bj8my Před rokem +76

      @@GreatUSTreasureHunt Can you at least try to to use reality and not FOX fantasy?!?!

    • @_somerandomguyontheinternet_
      @_somerandomguyontheinternet_ Před rokem +70

      @@GreatUSTreasureHunt did you even *watch* the video?

    • @doubletee1320
      @doubletee1320 Před rokem +72

      @@GreatUSTreasureHunt geez a simple no would have sufficed.

  • @tiredofit4761
    @tiredofit4761 Před rokem +13

    She was right about the deplorables coming out if he’s elected. Boy was she right!!

  • @mwwhited
    @mwwhited Před rokem +85

    I'm just enjoying popcorn while the "thin blue line" crowd are calling for bad things to happen to the FBI.

    • @rayebae6368
      @rayebae6368 Před rokem +4

      I think that depends on how one feels about local vs federal government. And how they believe they operate.

    • @whattheydidnttellyouwithbr2844
      @whattheydidnttellyouwithbr2844 Před rokem +2

      Are you an American? Then don't throw stones when you live in a glass house.

    • @poisonivy745
      @poisonivy745 Před rokem

      @@rayebae6368 it really depends on whether or not if supports their specific propaganda of the day. I remember Fox news making excuses for a staten island anti-masker that technically "ran over" a local police officer (the police officer was slowly pushed onto the hood of the car while he drove away) I think it was Hannity who said "the officer wasn't hurt that bad"

    • @gameguy1337
      @gameguy1337 Před rokem

      @@whattheydidnttellyouwithbr2844 We already smashed the windows here, so we are throwing stones at yours instead.

    • @clarityhouston3499
      @clarityhouston3499 Před rokem

      Supporting patrol cops not being harassed and assaulted, is not the same as calling for highly politicized top level federal law enforcement officials being looked into…

  • @seankrake4776
    @seankrake4776 Před rokem +115

    “Don’t take legal advice from a podcast… take it from a CZcams channel” 👍

    • @herbtapp3031
      @herbtapp3031 Před rokem +1

      Or advice from a guy talking about CZcams channels

    • @KonradTheWizzard
      @KonradTheWizzard Před rokem

      I was kind of wondering whether that was legal advice or irony.

    • @Moment-14
      @Moment-14 Před rokem +2

      Steely Irony I believe

    • @chapablo
      @chapablo Před rokem +5

      Sarcasm, actually.

    • @KonradTheWizzard
      @KonradTheWizzard Před rokem +1

      @@Moment-14 I'm so glad it is steely irony. Cast irony is so heavy and hard to maintain! 😁

  • @Kjleed13
    @Kjleed13 Před rokem +306

    This is like watching an old lady forgetting to scan the head of lettuce at the self checkout and the general manager who sees this as an opportunity to walk out with a 72” tv.

    • @bob-hp1lr
      @bob-hp1lr Před rokem +60

      Yeah there is such a massive difference between having classified information sent to your email (which can be very easy to miss since classification rules are super complicated) and having physical files with top secret written on them in big red letters. And that's not even getting into how both of them reacted when they were caught.

    • @halweiss8671
      @halweiss8671 Před rokem +8

      Or the difference between not paying for a cable channel and pirating movies.

    • @missmoxie9188
      @missmoxie9188 Před rokem +3

      You win the comments

    • @fluffyfang4213
      @fluffyfang4213 Před rokem +22

      An apt comparison. I still wouldn't trust the old lady to be President, but I wouldn't trust that general manager with ANYTHING.

    • @jenningsc001
      @jenningsc001 Před rokem

      Ya no, she shared had classified information unsecured, president trump had classified info in a secured room. Information he was legally allowed to see.

  • @SaCeuran
    @SaCeuran Před rokem +5

    I love it when content creators I love cross over! Opening Arguments lead me down the legal-stuff-for-laypeople rabbit hole I found this channel during

  • @alexmcd378
    @alexmcd378 Před rokem +7

    I'm imagining a revisit to this video, but it's just laughing at the implication that these cases are equal 😂

  • @snowy2550
    @snowy2550 Před rokem +133

    Still amazed how in depth some youtube channels go into these intensely analytical matters. Seems entirely like a professional presentation. I really am appreciative of people like this.

    • @Gretabpooh
      @Gretabpooh Před rokem +20

      That's because many of them ARE professionals in the area they comment on. Those in the legal field have plenty of practice presenting information in court, so it's not hard for them to use those saw talents in these CZcams presentations.

    • @ku8721
      @ku8721 Před rokem +10

      Whats sad is that while some CZcams channels like this and Wendover Productions give more researched and nuanced information than most if not all news programs, there are countless others channels spewing just what people want to hear and ignoring all the facts that don't fit that narrative.

    • @gorillaguerillaDK
      @gorillaguerillaDK Před rokem +5

      Well, maybe it’s due to the fact that both Andrew and Devon happens to be actual lawyers!
      Sure, Devon has this CZcams channel, and Andrew is hosting two podcasts, and are a frequent guest on other podcasts, (like God Awful Movies, The Skepticrat, etc.), but they still practice law!

    • @Heronblade86
      @Heronblade86 Před rokem +1

      This fellow is very good at what he does, I strongly suggest checking his channel out, He does informative videos on all sorts of legal issues, ranging from real life court cases to funner stuff like the legal accuracy of popular media like she hulk and better call saul.
      Of course, a lot of his latest content has been focused on the legal fiasco surrounding Trump, but that's not at all surprising.

  • @BluBlu777
    @BluBlu777 Před rokem +207

    *_Mishandling classified documents ??_* he STOLE them!!

    • @condorboss3339
      @condorboss3339 Před rokem +20

      _Oh, sure. Look at it the worst possible way. BUT CLINTON'S EMAILS_ !! /snark

    • @MarsJenkar
      @MarsJenkar Před rokem +11

      In this case, it's about what prosecutors can prove, not necessarily what he actually did.

    • @hivetech4903
      @hivetech4903 Před rokem +23

      @@MarsJenkar They have iron clad proof. He literally admitted they were at his residence lol. He was told to return them multiple times, and he both lied about having them and later changed his defense to "I can declassify them... just by thinking about it.." 😂 He is 100% getting charged in a few months.

    • @awesomeplays9074
      @awesomeplays9074 Před rokem

      @@hivetech4903 The GOP believe it will be in less than a month, and I agree, the evidence is overwhelmingly against Trump at this point, his top adviser was offered limited prosecutorial immunity in exchange for his testimony, and Donald Trump has already testified he personally handled them.

    • @Unsensitive
      @Unsensitive Před rokem +3

      He didn't actually steal them.
      Stealing implies no right to something, but taking and possessing it. He had a legal right to view and possess these documents at the time, just not take them or handle them how he did. He mishandled them at the time.
      It's a similar comparison of stealing vs unjust enrichment.
      Not sure what they'd call it here, but the law seems pretty clear designation as *illegal removal and retention*
      18 U.S. Code § 1924

  • @yoatzinpenaflor1262
    @yoatzinpenaflor1262 Před rokem +5

    Love Opening Arguments and the Puzzle In a Thunderstorm podcasts! So cool to see Andrew here.

  • @jellysecret
    @jellysecret Před rokem +6

    in middle school, we were all assigned a school email, and we werent allowed to use personal emails to do any schoolwork. if 12 year olds can learn to use the right email, government officials can too.

  • @Pikachu2Ash
    @Pikachu2Ash Před rokem +177

    "Who keeps this many boxes lying around honestly???!!"
    Trump: OH YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT MY BOXES!!! I LOVE BOXES!!!

    • @SonsOfLorgar
      @SonsOfLorgar Před rokem +12

      It's as if he's an orange tom cat wearing a human suit

    • @Pikachu2Ash
      @Pikachu2Ash Před rokem

      @@SonsOfLorgar ????

    • @RabblesTheBinx
      @RabblesTheBinx Před rokem +17

      ​@@SonsOfLorgar don't insult cats like that

    • @Gloomdrake
      @Gloomdrake Před rokem +2

      @@RabblesTheBinx saying he likes cats as much as boxes isn't an insult, it's simply an observation

    • @ladylad2763
      @ladylad2763 Před rokem +5

      @@Gloomdrake But still putting cats on trump's level in any way may very well be an insult to all cats even if the orange fella likes his boxes (Also fyi this is a common joke "he's as bad as [blank]" "don't insult [blank] like that")

  • @usmagrad87
    @usmagrad87 Před rokem +92

    Laughed out loud at the “Nerd” photo of Andrew Torres as he embraces that description, especially in regards doing legal research which involves reading copious amounts legal filings.

    • @TheMraksmith
      @TheMraksmith Před rokem +2

      Absolutely, that image put a smile on my face and lifted my mood.

  • @jamesturner2126
    @jamesturner2126 Před rokem +2

    How man embassies were attacked when GWB was in office? BUT BUT BUT ALL THEIR EMAILS! ☠️

  • @stephaniecuevas8451
    @stephaniecuevas8451 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for continuing to break down these complicated cases.

  • @Mikearice1
    @Mikearice1 Před rokem +112

    In the cases of Powell and the Clintons, I think we tend to forget how new email is as an everyday thing. Smart phones weren't a thing for Powell, and became a big thing after Clinton was already secretary of state. There was a whole way of doing things with pen and paper and phone calls not that long ago.

    • @KeithMickunas
      @KeithMickunas Před rokem

      And Secretary Clinton requested a secure device and was denied one. Therefore I wouldn't be surprised if she just said to her people "I need email on my phone." and they set this thing up for her without her putting much thought into how it was being done.

    • @merphul
      @merphul Před rokem +46

      that's part of why they couldn't go after Clinton, there weren't specific regs for electronic documents during her tenure as SoS.
      That the Federal Records Act was amended in 2014 to provide standards for electronic records is no coincidence.

    • @lrmackmcbride7498
      @lrmackmcbride7498 Před rokem

      @@merphul the 2014 amendment was a direct response to clinton's emails. Then it was violated by both obama and trump aides. But obviously not hillary as she was no longer in government.

    • @rogerwadell8784
      @rogerwadell8784 Před rokem

      Okay so Secretary Powell did not use emails all of his information came to him in envelopes with stamps on it delivered by AIDS.

    • @Mikearice1
      @Mikearice1 Před rokem +3

      @@rogerwadell8784 If he was going to access emails directly he had to be on a computer terminal, and was probably limited to doing so while actually at work. Checking one's phone for emails throughout the day, while being anywhere , doing anything, using the same device you use for personal calls and emails wasn't the ubiquitous thing it is now. PDAs existed but also would most likely have mostly been handled by aids, etc.. And yes, office executives in general used to require executive assistants and aids to manage their communications, and those people knew the proper protocols, and it was all a formal part of the job.

  • @IAmNumber4000
    @IAmNumber4000 Před rokem +257

    The “BleachBit” talking point is so funny when it comes from conservatives. The implication being, “Oh my god she had to BLEACH all the evidence because she was so guilty!” Complete technical illiteracy.
    Meanwhile I’m a person who worked in IT and had to secure-erase _everyone’s_ hard drive, even Dave from Sales, who never got an even halfway interesting email in his life.
    Only thing that makes BleachBit special is that it is open source and you don’t need to pay for it. It came pre-installed with my Linux distro 😂

    • @KLondike5
      @KLondike5 Před rokem +1

      And it now has "Hillary Clinton's emails" as a setting to fill space with chaff.

    • @musashi939
      @musashi939 Před rokem +14

      And it probably does not anything different than executing dd if=/dev/zero bs=4k of=/dev/sdX

    • @spankyx8606
      @spankyx8606 Před rokem +8

      ITS FREE????!!!!????

    • @popefacto5945
      @popefacto5945 Před rokem

      It's been standard DoD "retirement" procedure for any magnetic disk for decades. Also standard procedure is physical destruction of optical discs and devices which contain solid state memory. They're so damn Boomer-brained...

    • @NatoBoram
      @NatoBoram Před rokem +15

      @@spankyx8606 Not only it's free, but it's open source. This means anyone can submit bug fixes and new features to the developers of BleachBit for inclusion in the software.

  • @EbnPhtm
    @EbnPhtm Před rokem +3

    " Dont take legal advice from a podcast. Take legal advice from a youtube channel"
    Me: I cant, you're not my lawyer

  • @danieljohansson9419
    @danieljohansson9419 Před rokem +16

    Good to see Andrew getting to do work that isn't involving Eli :)

  • @ton73z28
    @ton73z28 Před rokem +64

    I was one of the first people to have a government email address when I work in the military.
    At first is only geeks that had it and we did everything by the book
    Then they allowed everyone to have it and know what a cluster it was. People were sending chain mail letters. And they never really understood all the ins and outs of email.
    In the meantime they put someone in charge who decided they were going to clean up the system. Well there's no official way to report stuff so when I reported something and it got to that person they would try to investigate me.
    And as they tried to make an example of me I made them look like fools. They even tried to get me fired over security thing that they personally put in there. I am being vague only because this was in the early to mid 1990s.
    Because I was a lower ranking military person I must say I had some awesome supervisors who understood what I explained the situation and rules and stood up for me when the attacks came for me.
    I'll give one example, they finally came out with a program to teach people the rules of email and the security that you need to do to protect the information etc etc.
    There wasn't a program so you had to go to a drive and click on the exe file.
    Three files below it, maybe four or five as we're looking at files on a dos machine, we're the passwords that were kept in an unencrypted Excel file.
    Most people at the time were afraid of computers and that stuff so they only clicked on what they knew.
    So I went to the proper channels to report what I found. And if you know anything about the military and any good deed goes on punished. When I got to the person on top they tried to get me for hacking into passwords. And I found out later they tried to fire me. Like I said the senior ncos I worked for had to explain to the person that it was an unencrypted file that anyone had access to and the information I gave them was to protect the system not to exploit it.
    Those are the wild West days of networks and the DDN. The DDN what's the name of the military internet before they call it the military internet.
    Well I've rambled a bit here but then I'm old and retired.
    Oh by the way LegalEagle since this was my field, everything you said was 100% correct.
    Which makes me have more confidence in all the other videos I watch of yours.

    • @Shade01982
      @Shade01982 Před rokem +10

      I'm probably a tad younger than you are from the sounds of it, as was in the navy at the end of the '90's, right before the turn of the millennium, but it was still almost just as bad. Only a very few people knew how to deal with that crap...

    • @GoCoyote
      @GoCoyote Před rokem +13

      This is like Missouri Gov. Mike Parson who wants to prosecute the reporter and newspaper for telling the state about a security flaw in their website that allowed anyone to view the private details of over 100,000 state employees, including addresses and SS numbers. The newspaper notified the governors office beforehand to allow them time to correct the issue before running the story.
      I believe that most people never take the time to think about the meaning of "common sense." It is literally having a similar ability to see, feel, and hear what is going on around us. But whenever we have people claiming that the rules of our senses have changed in order to get what they want, then we are in trouble.

    • @chapablo
      @chapablo Před rokem +1

      Thank you for your service.

    • @FallenStarFeatures
      @FallenStarFeatures Před rokem +1

      Thank you for your service, and for refusing to bow to persecution. Yours is yet another example of why whistleblowers' anonymity must be zealously protected.

  • @DakodaOK
    @DakodaOK Před rokem +504

    People in the "Lock her up" camp seem to conveniently forget Ivanka Trump using personal emails to discuss government business multiple times throughout the last presidency. It's almost as if a double standard is in place.

    • @BroAnarchy
      @BroAnarchy Před rokem +22

      Yeah..... "almost"

    • @earthling_parth
      @earthling_parth Před rokem +47

      @@BroAnarchy alright, there is "definitely" double standard amongst people who blindly vote for Republican.

    • @jenningsc001
      @jenningsc001 Před rokem +1

      Ivanka didn't share highly classified information on her private email. The issue with killary is she shared classified info not that she did gov business on personal email. The video this guy put up is deisned to miss lead you.

    • @ThomasG84
      @ThomasG84 Před rokem +1

      It’s not the use of private emails that is the problem it’s the large scale storage of classified emails on a private server that is. There is no doubt Hillary stuffed up there - she broke the law but it wasn’t an intentional breaking of the law.

    • @GodofGrunts
      @GodofGrunts Před rokem +15

      Lock them all up. It's simple.

  • @SamButler22
    @SamButler22 Před rokem +2

    We had a Home Secretary resign in disgrace after she forwarded official emails to her private email, but she was reinstated a few days later by the new PM

  • @Mrdr
    @Mrdr Před rokem +7

    Excellent breakdown. Thank you!

  • @whocares9033
    @whocares9033 Před rokem +217

    I'd like to see a comparison between Hillary's emails and what Ivanka did with her emails on a personal server

    • @wayne19771000
      @wayne19771000 Před rokem

      Why?? One is an elected position with access to classified material…. The other was nothing close. And I’d be willing to bet, Iva bla wouldn’t delete and then destroy her stuff… AFTER BEING COURT ORDERED TO TURN IT OVER!!! Can’t wait to hear your excuse for this: why do you support someone that just said on national tv that ALL BLQCK PEOPLE LOOK THE SAME!!! Clinton just said this, and has done way worse… biden just told a small black child that he can steal a pumpkin or anything else he wanted!!! The people you support are very racist…. Wait… if you said people who supported President Trump were racist because they supported a supposed racist… wouldn’t this now apply to you?!? Or are you one of the “stupid” voters Harris just spoke about… and these are their words, not mine.

    • @flyingfig12
      @flyingfig12 Před rokem +4

      and the billions her hubby received.

    • @wayne19771000
      @wayne19771000 Před rokem

      Lmao… and the billions hunter recieved??? Pelosi recieved?? Clintons recieved??? What about ftx and the money they took from Ukraine??? We have REAL questions!!!!

    • @whocares9033
      @whocares9033 Před rokem +2

      @@wayne19771000 no you don't, you have right wing talking points you want to scream about

    • @dnw009
      @dnw009 Před rokem

      @@whocares9033 It's unlikely they would prosecute Ivanka just like they wouldn't prosecute Hillary. Who both unlike Trump did not have a year of people asking him to return said documents and did not comply when they became a private citizen. They also did not store hundreds of classified info in their private club/home.
      And considering just how careless US officials are with classified information there honestly should be a multi day course to drill into most if not all of them how to handle the material again.

  • @jackferdinger4180
    @jackferdinger4180 Před rokem +86

    I used to work in the intel Community, and held a TS/SCI clearance. My biggest issue with Clinton's Email issue and the other examples you listed is that anybody else would have been punished, maybe not severely, but punished regardless. That said, there is a genuine issue with mishandling of classified information as whole, and a lot of it is in no way malicious. The vast majority is negligence

    • @bonniehall578
      @bonniehall578 Před rokem +3

      She was punished by Comey!

    • @Tyrentenir
      @Tyrentenir Před rokem

      @@bonniehall578 Yeah... Comey effectively decided that he would punish her with negative publicity right before the election. In effect depriving her of power and the money that comes with power.
      Of course that was not an official legal action. Just a little something that Comey thought was the right thing to do.
      Later to likely regret that decision as he was subsequently the recipient of intended coercion by Trump to turn the FBI into the president's personal police force.

    • @DarkZombeh
      @DarkZombeh Před rokem

      She was not punished? wait what do you mean punished? like spanking? a big NO with wagging finger? Or you mean jail, cause as we know, in the US jail system, is not about rehabilitation its about punishment.
      Lets be real, like everybody in congress and goverment do have private emails, and use private communications, the whole thing with clintons "private" server is that its actually a more secure to have communications than your normal email providers...
      And of like 33k emails, that were almost all personal matters, only what? 3 had classified markings? And while yes that is Negligence, its not like they were trading classified documents, they just talked about stuff that was deemed classified. Truth is that you say people would be punished, i just want to know what kind of punishment you would have choosen, since obviously 24/7 media cancelling you and making you lose a presidential election, is not enough punishment, what would you have liked for her to suffer? maybe someone to do something to her or her quitting the nomination? or idk what do you want? Whats your professional opinon as a former intel community worker, and TS/SCI cleared employee.
      Because like when i see trump who has had investigations over fraud, and much worse stuff that he even settle like trump university, or all the sexual assault allegations and i dont see him punished, i feel like you might just a be a little bias, but then again, i wish we lived in a world where he had been punished for that, and that our worst worries would be to worry about clintons 3 classified emails that were mishandled didnt get punished enough

    • @cockathiel5319
      @cockathiel5319 Před rokem +24

      The thing is, that’s clearly not true. The Secretary of State who came before her did the same thing, as did many people in the Trump administration. None of them were even investigated, much less punished. Having a private server and using the same devices for both private and official business was essentially SOP for high-level government officials basically starting when personal email use became popular. It shouldn’t have been and hopefully everyone knows better now, but it clearly isn’t something that was seen as a problem until the 2016 election cycle.
      You’re right that any random government worker would probably lose their job and their clearance (or their freedom) if they had official documents on a personal device, but not high level political appointees. The fact that there are two different standards isn’t a Hillary thing, it’s a political power thing. Saying Hillary is the only person who wouldn’t face consequences for it is just not true and obscures the real issue.

    • @jackferdinger4180
      @jackferdinger4180 Před rokem +9

      @@cockathiel5319 kinda weird that nothing you said was relevant, since I didn't say Hillary is the only person who didn't face consequences

  • @dinoballz
    @dinoballz Před rokem +5

    When it comes to Hillary’s E-mails, remember that Cheney did it first. By BCC’ing all mails from GW Bush.

  • @stoodmuffinpersonal3144
    @stoodmuffinpersonal3144 Před 11 měsíci +4

    Trumpians accusing anyone of a double standard is rich

  • @iwontliveinfear
    @iwontliveinfear Před rokem +104

    A company that I contract for was tasked with evaluation of data security for Hillary's email server as part of the investigation.
    Her email server had better data security than the official servers.

    • @Destroyer_V0
      @Destroyer_V0 Před rokem +7

      Interesting that.

    • @MP-db9sw
      @MP-db9sw Před rokem +5

      I really want this to be true but… youre just another person on the internet. Anecdotal accounts are summarily dismissed.

    • @aceg81
      @aceg81 Před rokem +3

      @@MP-db9sw I believe it. A relative of mine does netsec for the DOD, and when he first started working there, decades ago, he found appalling security practices (we're talking passwords for high-clearance accounts on post-it notes by the keyboard). He's now a private contractor, still doing netsec for them, and he says that government IT practices are still lagging behind private sector practices.

    • @iwontliveinfear
      @iwontliveinfear Před rokem +3

      @@MP-db9sw I'm not saying that Hillary's email server had "good" data security. Just it had better data security than the official government email servers.
      The thing that any IT specialist knows is that security and convenience are opposite ends of a spectrum.
      It's like position and momentum in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. The more you have of one, the less you can have of the other.
      The government servers are designed for convenience. The security is adequate but it's isn't good.
      Honestly, Hillary's servers just had more modern security protocols. The government servers are a few updates behind.

    • @evangiles4403
      @evangiles4403 Před 11 měsíci

      Whats interesting is it was Collin Powell helped her set up the server's

  • @anyrealitybutthisone804
    @anyrealitybutthisone804 Před rokem +88

    Oh man, no one can throw shade like a lawyer. Devin, I almost fell out of my chair with the bleach comment, good show 😂

    • @pitterpatterer
      @pitterpatterer Před rokem +4

      I came here to say this . 😂

    • @salvatoreraber19
      @salvatoreraber19 Před rokem +2

      Yep, seems he did not throw any the other way, you like how wiping a hard drive involving a damp rag. Certainly no bias here.

    • @genghiscan2918
      @genghiscan2918 Před rokem +1

      @@salvatoreraber19 sorry reality messes with your political bias

  • @MajICReiki
    @MajICReiki Před rokem +3

    Great clear comparative analysis!

  • @christopherduffy9854
    @christopherduffy9854 Před rokem +4

    Huh, as someone from the UK I didnt realize that Lindsey Graham has the voice of a kindly Southern grandmother.

  • @lhvinny
    @lhvinny Před rokem +102

    "The response to the DoJ was incomplete" is just a polite way of saying, "they lied to highest law enforcement power in the land."

    • @agsilverradio2225
      @agsilverradio2225 Před rokem +1

      What about the 5th ammendment?

    • @lhvinny
      @lhvinny Před rokem +8

      @@agsilverradio2225 What about it? At what point was anyone forced to make a self-incriminating statement?
      If all documents had been returned as requested, I don't think any potential charges would have been considered at all.
      It is, from my understanding, exactly because they lied about the document return being complete that the trouble arose.

  • @johnstevenson9956
    @johnstevenson9956 Před rokem +196

    It still staggers me that he was able to simply stuff these documents in boxes, throw them in the trunk, and padlock them in a basement in a private club, then sit on them for all that time doing whatever he wanted with them. Are we that careless with our secrets?

    • @Heronblade86
      @Heronblade86 Před rokem +41

      Not normally.
      The problem in this case is that the legal authority concerning how to handle most such secrets stems from executive orders. The president has pretty close to carte blanche to handle non nuclear secrets in whatever way they care to.
      So while there certainly wasn't anyone in the White House responsible for such secrets who would have simply allowed that to happen, they were not in a position to oversee or even object, right up until the instant that Donald Trump became a private citizen and lost that authority, by which point it was too late to do anything but wait for the DOJ to go after the issue.

    • @LazyFaux5656
      @LazyFaux5656 Před rokem +4

      He was cooperating with the National Archive.

    • @Heronblade86
      @Heronblade86 Před rokem +45

      @@LazyFaux5656 Not according to the national archive, or the courts, or anyone else involved. They told him over and over and over again to stop screwing around and hand over the damn documents. He refused to comply, metaphorically giving them the finger for over a year before they eventually threw up their hands and asked for a subpoena to force him to do what he should have done from day one.

    • @LazyFaux5656
      @LazyFaux5656 Před rokem +5

      @Heronblade86 Not from what I've read. He was compliant and stored them as they deemed acceptable.

    • @LazyFaux5656
      @LazyFaux5656 Před rokem +6

      @@Heronblade86 Regardless, nothing is going to happen to him. Nothing ever does to these elites.

  • @RodriguezChuckfucker
    @RodriguezChuckfucker Před rokem +5

    My roommate doesn't think your background is real, but I do. Is it a green screen? Light googling didn't answer :(

  • @MrArcher0
    @MrArcher0 Před rokem +10

    Excellent job navigating these two cases.

  • @Ganurath
    @Ganurath Před rokem +58

    The H in "But Her Emails!" is silent, so is properly pronounced like "Buttery Males."

  • @zaidalhuneidi31
    @zaidalhuneidi31 Před rokem +324

    My two favorite lawyers in one piece of content. Christmas clearly came early

    • @TheRockinDonkey
      @TheRockinDonkey Před rokem +3

      Bring in Steve Lehto for the hat trick

    • @lhfirex
      @lhfirex Před rokem +4

      I still prefer Lionel Hutz and Saul Goodman, but these guys are pretty good.

    • @NeoMark627
      @NeoMark627 Před rokem

      Oh that naughty old elf must be one mean bastard to give use this present so early.

    • @felironmaden1429
      @felironmaden1429 Před rokem +3

      @@TheRockinDonkey Don't forget Lock Picking Lawyer!

    • @TheRockinDonkey
      @TheRockinDonkey Před rokem

      @@felironmaden1429 Right!

  • @marqgoldberg7454
    @marqgoldberg7454 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Thanks. I've been waiting since 2016 for someone to explain the difference between gross negligence and extreme carelessness.

  • @pinchebruha405
    @pinchebruha405 Před rokem

    Thankss Hunk for clearing things up!

  • @jschuh
    @jschuh Před rokem +133

    Good video. I spent the first decade of my career in the IC. I've been a sysadmin on classified networks, certified TSCM auditor for SCIF qualification, and even did data collection on some classification investigations. I've seen firsthand how this stuff works, know that what Clinton did was sadly common at senior levels (and honestly unheard of triggering the kind of investigation that ensued). But what Trump did? Stealing boxes of marked classified (up to TS//SCI) and lying to investigators? It's like comparing Clinton speeding 10 miles over the limit to Trump committing a hit and run vehicular homicide. It's just absurd to try to create equivalence between them.

    • @jimcrelm9478
      @jimcrelm9478 Před rokem +4

      20mph over, but otherwise totally agree

    • @ChristopherNFP
      @ChristopherNFP Před rokem +3

      Sadly common =/= legal
      Public interest might have been better served if she was charged and found not guilty at the time.
      It would now be a nothing burger and if Trump tried to make a comparison he would have to invite himself to be prosecuted.

    • @jschuh
      @jschuh Před rokem

      ​@@ChristopherNFP Did you not watch the video? There was nothing to charge Clinton with because she didn't break any laws and she cooperated fully with the investigation. Literally no one could ever be charged for what she did. The most extreme treatment I've seen in a similar case is junior enlisted military getting a temporarily suspended clearance during the investigation and article 15 non-judicial punishment (which is unique to the UCMJ). Whereas Trump flagrantly broke numerous major laws and spent over a year lying to investigators. I never saw anything even remotely that egregious in my time. It's of comparable scope and scale to what recently landed Joshua Schulte in prison on an 80 year sentence.

    • @felironmaden1429
      @felironmaden1429 Před rokem +10

      @@ChristopherNFP Sadly common kinda does = legal. People jaywalk all the time, hardly anyone ever gets cited for it. People disobey the speed limit regularly, right in front of cops with radar guns, but hey if EVERYONE is doing 75, its considered "flow of traffic". Hell adultery is still on the books as a FELONY in most states and it hasnt been prosecuted in like 50 years, because everyone does it. OWOWOW EXCEPT ME HONEY, OW STOP THAT!

    • @almc8445
      @almc8445 Před rokem +4

      @Justin While I agree with everything you've said, I think it's important to point out that if any member of the broader population unknowingly breaks the law, they still get charged. Using your 10 over example, if a cop caught you doing that and you said you didn't see the sign, would they care? No. People in power need to be held to a higher standard then everyone else, not given exemptions.
      You and multiple others have said this is common at senior levels, and that won't change by just constantly ignoring everyone who "didn't know".

  • @EASYTIGER10
    @EASYTIGER10 Před rokem +48

    I've been wanting a comparison of these cases by someone who knows what they're talking about for a while. Thanks LegalEagle.

    • @ssholum
      @ssholum Před rokem

      Too bad he's still a partisan hack.

  • @sixft7in
    @sixft7in Před rokem +4

    16:58 "...discharged for bad conduct..." For those that have been in the military, we call this the "Big Chicken Dinner (Bad Conduct Discharge)"

  • @joels5150
    @joels5150 Před rokem +3

    “Don’t take legal advice from a podcast. Take legal advice from a CZcams channel”.
    Damn, shots fired…

  • @thatjeff7550
    @thatjeff7550 Před rokem +26

    "But look, don't take legal advice from a podcast, take legal advice from a CZcams video..." LOL

  • @patricaomas8750
    @patricaomas8750 Před rokem +20

    If you found them in my home I'd be now sitting in some dark place, with my fingernails missing.

    • @jawstrock2215
      @jawstrock2215 Před rokem

      Maybe not if you were a gov employee at the time. You would definitely be investigated though.

    • @Justanotherconsumer
      @Justanotherconsumer Před rokem

      @@jawstrock2215 well then you’d be unemployed as well.
      Politicians can get away with this crap, the rank and file get no such leeway.

    • @jawstrock2215
      @jawstrock2215 Před rokem

      @@Justanotherconsumer well politicians are in a special place because they are elected, not hired.
      Normally such thing should guaranty nobody would vote for them ever.. and yet....

  • @TheCalebMoline
    @TheCalebMoline Před rokem +8

    Omg, I saw the title and could NOT believe that two of my favorite podcast hosts were teaming up with one of my favorite CZcamsrs! 🤩🤩🤩 I’d love to see you on the show sometime. ❤

    • @Ist00pid1000
      @Ist00pid1000 Před rokem +2

      If you were talking about legal eagle showing up on the podcast, he has. Episodes 381: "The legal Eagle interview" and 401: " Legal Eagle Sues the Trump Administration". If you didnt already know, if you did, apologies and have a good one.

  • @zskhan47
    @zskhan47 Před rokem +4

    That remark about drinking bleach is epic!!

  • @stephenfisher4133
    @stephenfisher4133 Před rokem +80

    As an OA and LE fan since the beginning of each I can't believe it's taken this long for OA to show up here (and now it's time for LE to show up on OA as more than just a mention). You're both the best legal analysis in modern times, thanks for taking the time out of being a lawyer to help a non-lawyer like me understand what's going on.

    • @tedbexley
      @tedbexley Před rokem +9

      Devon has made an appearance on OA about a lawsuit he was submitting. I forget the episode (and case) but can look it up

    • @jordanking4834
      @jordanking4834 Před rokem +1

      I feel like I remember him on OA to discuss Tiger King

    • @FluidKaos
      @FluidKaos Před rokem +1

      Either way, more collaborations = more awesome content. Love both LE and OA.

    • @gorillaguerillaDK
      @gorillaguerillaDK Před rokem +4

      He was on Opening Arguments a couple of years ago, episode 381 and 401
      And ifI recall correctly they also did a fundraiser together for a political campaign back in 2020

  • @jamespeterson7125
    @jamespeterson7125 Před rokem +73

    As an avid listener to you both, I love the OA collab!

  • @joanies6778
    @joanies6778 Před rokem +1

    Excellent review. Thanks!

  • @opalpersonal
    @opalpersonal Před rokem +1

    this is like a semi-truck driver swerving over three lanes of traffic and causing a huge wreck getting tried, only to blame a tiny sedan in front of him for the accident for having a single broken tail light.

  • @Makarosc
    @Makarosc Před rokem +14

    Who else imagined that dad going "Oh no my son's a Soviet spy"

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 Před rokem +29

    Senator Graham's dog whisle made my cat go moooo.

    • @jasonpeacock9735
      @jasonpeacock9735 Před rokem +2

      It’s also rumored his milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard

  • @TheYpurias
    @TheYpurias Před rokem +5

    There's a legal eagle, a scowl owl, and now a nerd bird.

  • @turtle4llama
    @turtle4llama Před rokem +3

    The guy who threw the documents in the trash could have just taken them home and burned them. If you're gonna do a stupid crime, at least do it in a way that won't leave evidence.

  • @serephita
    @serephita Před rokem +83

    I would really like to see you cover the SCOTUS case of ICWA. Indigenous affairs don't get enough attention and this case about ICWA is incredibly important and will likely add more generational trauma as children are ripped from their families again. (the case is Brackeen v Haaland, and started yesterday Nov 9)

    • @jamilajones8328
      @jamilajones8328 Před rokem +8

      Yes, please 🙏🏽

    • @hadespuppy
      @hadespuppy Před rokem +8

      Never mind the implications for Indigenous rights and protections generally, as evidenced by the fact that big oil is funding the white family's case.

    • @sarab2624
      @sarab2624 Před rokem +3

      Yes! Legal Eagle please cover this!

  • @theCidisIn
    @theCidisIn Před rokem +13

    Lindsey Graham makes me sick. He sounds like he's threatening another January 6th...

    • @Iris_1217
      @Iris_1217 Před rokem +1

      Remember when he said that if the GOP nominated Trump they'd destroy themselves and they'd deserve it?
      Yeah I think they're on their way.
      Should have just nominated Jeb.
      smh

    • @theCidisIn
      @theCidisIn Před rokem

      @@Iris_1217 They owed Jeb too after he rigged the first of his brothers elections for them.

    • @Iris_1217
      @Iris_1217 Před rokem

      @@theCidisIn Yeah, I know a lot of people on the left were going on and on about "legacies" and "kingmaking" and how it set a bad precedent to nominate/elect another Bush.
      Apparently everyone just completely forgot about the Kennedys.
      I tend to vote blue despite being independent because I'm more socially progressive even if I'm fiscally conservative (To an extent).
      I would have voted for Jeb over Hillary.

  • @channarosenblatt8197
    @channarosenblatt8197 Před rokem +12

    Thank you, Devin Stone, for your work, your persistence, your resilience, your understanding, and your vision. We just heard that the Senate will stay Democratic. Your work on CZcams has contributed to this victory and its ensuing stability. You are precious, your work means more than gold.

  • @alexpalmer7018
    @alexpalmer7018 Před rokem +4

    Trump was literally president for 4 whole years after campaigning on the "lock her up" line. The fact that she isn't imprisoned is on him now, nobody else. I don't give a shit about her emails, go ahead, imprison her, but then lock trump up too. Lock them both up

  • @gilesluver
    @gilesluver Před rokem +69

    Trump started retaining them out of spite, I swear.

    • @joshuabenton3785
      @joshuabenton3785 Před rokem +2

      100% this

    • @FlameDarkfire
      @FlameDarkfire Před rokem

      He sold the information. He was trying to get the most money before the DOJ came crashing in.

    • @asheronwindspear552
      @asheronwindspear552 Před rokem +8

      That would be incredibly petty and juvenile... I think you might be correct.

    • @eastvandb
      @eastvandb Před rokem +4

      I suspect that's a generous interpretation.
      My bet is his intentions were even worse.

    • @awesomeplays9074
      @awesomeplays9074 Před rokem +6

      @@eastvandb There are three scenarios, a) he kept them to brag about them, b) he kept them out of spite and pettiness, c) he sold them or handed them over to a foreign power.

  • @JoeBlow-zr2ru
    @JoeBlow-zr2ru Před rokem +60

    It is *_recidulous_* for public servants
    who are informed of their obligations regarding sensitive information when sworn-in to office
    to then _let them off from their incompetence_ if they simply say "oops, it was an accident"
    It needs to stop. Lock them *_all_* up.

    • @FurtiveSkeptical
      @FurtiveSkeptical Před rokem +9

      "ridiculous"....
      May as well spell it right if you're gonna italicize it......

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 Před rokem +1

      *ridiculous

    • @DavidGowers
      @DavidGowers Před rokem +1

      *ridiculous

    • @sarahdysart2832
      @sarahdysart2832 Před rokem +1

      @Chris Colbourne @NoriMori @David Gowers
      Pretty sure the recidulous misspelling is on purpose though. Probably to emphasize that little mistakes shouldn't go uncorrected in normal situations lol.
      Edit: Had a spacing issue lol, didn't catch it on my proofread. Mistake corrected!

    • @FurtiveSkeptical
      @FurtiveSkeptical Před rokem

      @@sarahdysart2832 You mean the exact way that you are approaching as well?
      Meh, ....thanks for the perspective.
      Yeah, but "recidulous"? Not trying to be a snob, everyone has a moment for typos or whoops. It wasn't intended as mean spirited. Just makes a person wonder how many times you encounter a word in this life and not understand it's spelling. Words mean things, and I agreed with what he was saying.....but it was a shame to have your verbal fly down in an otherwise concise statement.
      Sigh, anyways throw your opinion on that pile over there with mine and the rest. Be well.

  • @harshmoor2280
    @harshmoor2280 Před rokem +3

    Bro it's so sad, mark my words. This country I love will fall because politics has turned Into a gladiator ring instead of a round table of cooperation.