gbrk posted:L. Cranston posted:I guess the Democrats tricked Trump, et all, into hiding the phone conversations on secret servers?
Where to began?
First - The private, or secret, server was a Government server, not a personal one as Hillary used illegally. Actually, the digital contents were moved from a confidential "Government" Server to an even more confidential "Government" server located in the White House. Hillary, while Secretary of State, a Government employee, kept classified and Government related information on a personal server/computer that was located not on Government property and behind Government firewalls but located in a bathroom.
Second - There are plenty of reasons to store things on the private/secret server and that is confidentiality of information such as conversations with people that those conversations or documents have need of secrecy such as dealing with National Security and/or interactions with foreign leaders whose conversations often need to be kept secret and confidential otherwise a President, no matter the party, would have a problem if those dealing with him/her aren't assured that what they say will be kept in confidence. By their very nature often communications and interactions with a President needs to be classified secret or limited to a small number of people.
Third - The information that was put on the server was put there, not by Trump but by others in Trump's lawyers or other employees of the White House for keeping confidential given the huge number of leaks that occurred from early on in Trump's administration.
Trump - directed that the contents be revealed the and there are people who have security clearances that would allow them access to the documents and information that are kept on the secret/confidential government servers so they aren't hidden or destroyed beyond recovery. Other national leaders have to have confidence that their private conversations with an American President will remain private and confidential or it will hurt our relations with other nations and leaders. HAD Trump directed that the contents of the conversations be destroyed there would be numerous calls for impeachment for obstruction of justice and then he would be hiding them but he didn't do that. Hillary destroyed hard drives, cell phones, sim cards, and bleached data to prevent recovery of 30,000+ emails or conversations and preventing them from being analyzed and reviewed yet no calls for obstruction of justice or prosecution account of that. There were efforts on the part of the Republicans to hold her accountable for her actions but she was protected by the Administration and protected by a highly partisan FBI and Justice Department who admitted she was careless but not prosecutable account she didn't INTEND to do it, or so they said. You give Hillary a blank pass and total absolution yet want to crucify Trump for nothing near as severe.
One other difference between Trump's communications and those of, say, Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State and that is Trump made no overt efforts to destroy data/information such that it could not be recovered or discovered. The information of Trump's is there just restricted but Hillary deleted, erased, bleach bit destroyed her emails beyond recovery. She also had cell phones and hard drives destroyed so 30,000+ emails were never available to anyone. That's totally different than what Trump is connected with.
There may be more points but these are just a few that came to mind regarding this server. None of these, I'm sure, will have any sway with an already hyper biased person that has absolutely no impartiality when it comes to anything Trump but if there is a question about whether there is an attempt to cover up something then details such as private server versus government server does mean something. We don't know if the information was moved from a confidential government server to an even more protected one at Trump's direction or one of the White House lawyers but the information was still available for viewing or listening to it was just restricted to individuals with a more restricted clearance.
Great job at deflecting from the topic, but Trump's Administration hid the phone conversations on a server earmarked for the most top security. Nothing in these calls is that top secret. They hid the call because they knew it was wrong... plain and simple and no amount of Republican spin will change that.