Clinton pokes fun at Meadows’ use of private emails, says he was “plotting a coup d’etat”

All all through Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election marketing campaign, the previous secretary of state was besieged by assaults associated to her use of private emails for official public communications. Now that Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s White of Chief of Staff, is below federal scrutiny for allegedly doing the identical factor, Clinton was fast to pounce on-line.  

The growth got here after a Tuesday weblog put up revealed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who argued that “if Hillary Clinton’s e mail protocols had been a main nationwide story for over a yr, Mark Meadows’ use of private e mail accounts issues, too.”

Quote-tweeting Maddow’s put up Thursday, Clinton responded: “Especially since his emails had been about plotting a coup d’etat, whereas ours had been about gefilte fish.”

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Back in September of 2015, whereas Clinton’s election was underway, the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General was tasked with reviewing Clinton’s use of a private e mail server to ship and obtain a whole bunch of labeled emails. (One email below evaluate concerned a U.S.-Israeli commerce dispute round tariffs on imported carp, which is a most important ingredient for gefilte fish.) Ultimately, then-FBI Director James Comey concluded that Clinton had been “extraordinarily careless,” however didn’t act with felony intent, releasing her from potential costs. The obvious scandal was one of essentially the most extensively lined political tales at the time, and lots of critics felt that it contributed closely to her 2016 loss. 

This week, the House committee charged with investigating the Capitol riot has been probing Meadows’ communications with numerous Trump allies, together with a quantity of Fox News hosts. 

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According to The New York Times, Meadows was involved with quite a few Republicans within the House, all of whom had been conspiring to reinstall Trump as president regardless of his electoral defeat within the 2020 election. Among them embody Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, Mo Brooks, R-Ala. and Scott Perry, R-Pa. The congressional coterie reportedly led a coordinated effort, spanning a number of businesses and state legislatures, to overturn the election in a number of battleground states. All of their efforts failed, and no proof has but emerged that the election was “stolen.” 

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Last week, Meadows turned over a PowerPoint presentation that laid out a quantity of completely different, legally doubtful pathways via which Vice President Mike Pence may have supposedly nullified the election certification course of. In truth, Pence’s position — as is the case with all vice presidents — was totally ceremonial. 

On Wednesday, the House voted to carry Meadows in contempt of Congress over his refusal to adjust to a congressional subpoena. President Biden endorsed the vote Wednesday, saying that the Trump aide was “worthy of being held in contempt.”