Trump's case is significantly different than HRC's.
1. Out of 150,000 plus emails, only two paragraphs had a sentence marked with a "C" for classified.
2. The other documents that did contain classified information were not marked classified. The burden is on the sender to properly mark classified information. It's not on the recipient to figure out if a document that is not marked classified has classified material. This is what Comey based his ruling on. It was reckless for HRC to not realize she had classified material, but it was not properly marked. So, there was no intent to illegally possess classified material.
3. Even former Atty General Barr has said Trump had no business hording classified material at the MAR A lago.
4. General Petraus got into trouble for giving top secret information to his mistress so she could write a book. He did not have to go to jail.
Originally Posted by adav8s28
As I wrote before, I'm not sure I'd find Edward Snowden or Julian Assange guilty if I were on a jury, especially now that Blackman's pointed out it's the judge who determines the sentence.
What Trump and Hillary Clinton did was plain stupid. From the perspective of the risk to the United States of American, what Clinton did was stupider. According to Wikipedia, 65 of the Emails on her server were retroactively deemed "Secret," and 22 deemed "Top Secret." I don't know a lot about computer security, but it seems to me that a server owned by an individual can be at high risk of being hacked, especially when that individual is the Secretary of State. Do we want our enemies, or our allies for that matter, peering into the communications of our top foreign relations official?
Trump on the other hand had top secret documents mixed in with newspaper clippings, dirty underwear, maybe an autographed photo of Stormy Daniels, in boxes in a building presumably guarded by the Secret Service. There's just no comparison.
On the other hand, from the perspective of what's stupidest considering the interests of the individuals involved, Trump takes the cake. When he didn't give over all the secret documents early this year, he was giving the finger to The Man. And you don't given the finger to The Man, even if you are the ex-president of the United States of America. The Man will fuck you.