Megyn Kelly, a prolific podcast host, drew a comparison between how former President Trump is currently being treated and the treatment issued to Hillary Clinton, highlighting a fairly extreme double standard.
Kelly spoke out this past Monday to express that Trump’s actions when handling these classified documents, which are thought to be a primary reason that Democrats may attempt to secure a second indictment against him, were problematic but then made reference to the targeting of Trump throughout the 2016 presidential election and the role that Hillary Clinton played in it.
“I’m not defending,” she claimed about Trump. “If he got a subpoena and he had documents, that’s not okay. As a lawyer, you don’t have to persuade me. You’re supposed to treat subpoenas very respectfully … It’s just so aggravating because she has gotten away with so much.”
“We just went through this whole thing where she used her lawyer to go into the FBI and try to sic them on Donald Trump and say that he was using some Russian bank to hide his nefarious dealings,” Kelly pointed out. “She’s been using lawyers to do her dirty work forever, and we just generally haven’t had a practice of criminalizing the behavior of somebody in her position. Yes, we’ve sniffed around the lawyers from time to time, but this is everything with him is different.”
On Tuesday, however, Kelly elected to double down, expressing to famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, “I’m sorry but what about Hillary Clinton? Hillary Clinton destroyed information; federally subpoenaed emails and devices, to hide evidence … What about Hillary? She destroyed documents under subpoena and was given a total pass.”
“I get it it’s bad to ignore a subpoena, never mind not comply with it, or say you have when you haven’t, but why didn’t anybody give a damn when she did it?” she questioned.
Back in September of 2016, a report about oversight of the FBI was handed over to the House Judiciary Committee. Rep Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) stated:
It seems clear that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton committed multiple felonies involving the passing of classified information through her private email server. The FBI, however, declined to refer the case for prosecution on some very questionable bases. This past Friday afternoon, the FBI released additional investigative documents from the Clinton investigation which demonstrate, among other things, that more than 100 of the emails on Secretary Clinton’s private server contained classified information and that emails required to be preserved under Federal law were, in fact, destroyed.
Secretary Clinton’s decision to play fast and loose with our national security concerned not simply her daughter’s wedding planning or yoga routines but, instead, quoting you, Director Comey, “Seven email chains concerned matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received.” Top Secret/Special Access Programs contain some of the most sensitive secret information maintained by our government. This is a truly remarkable fact. Were anyone of lesser notoriety than Hillary Clinton guilty of doing this, that person would already be in jail.
