Republican Outrage to Clinton Email Controversy
When Hillary Clinton was found to have used a private server in handling confidential material, the outrage was swift and fierce. The media and especially the Republicans continuously brought up the issue in an attempt to stir controversy out of the situation and to defame Hillary Clinton. The Republicans mainly persisted that the situation was not being properly investigated, and that the situation should be further investigated. Trey Gowdy, the Republican U.S. Representative, who has a history of pushing for investigation on how Hillary Clinton handled the 2012 Benghazi attack , jumped onto the Clinton email situation and not only attacked her but also FBI director James Comey for the discretions in what Hillary Clinton said and the FBI’s investigation. Pushing the notion that the FBI did not thourougly investigate Hillary Clinton as well as they should have.
With Hillary Clinton being a prominent member of Barrack Obama’s candidate, and the democratic front runner for President it is no surprise that partisan politics came into play regarding the emails. At the Republican National Convention the email controversy was a major topic of discussion, with Christ Christie rousing the crowd into a frenzy over the possibility of her being guilty of putting the U.S. in danger. Two Republican Senator Committee heads Charles Grassley of the senate judiciary committee and Ron Johnson of the senate homeland security committee both stated that they will seek an independent review of the deleted emails. Of all the Republicans none have had as much to gain for doing so as Donald Trump.
Donald Trump’s Response to Hillary Clinton’s Emails
As the Republican party frontrunner he is her main challenger for president and the current leader of the Republican party. He is also in charge of riling up the republican party base, and turning any information he can against Hillary Clinton into public outrage. Trump has used Hilliary Clinton’s emails as proof that she is not only a danger to the United States, but is also unfit to be president. In a speech Donald Trump made the claim that Hilliary Clinton created a private email server with “premeditation” although he messed up the word and said “premedication” he still asserts that she knew that she was putting the United States at risk with her private server.
To the republicans, Hillary Clinton’s email are fodder to further increase the rhetorical narrative that we discussed in class, that she is untrustworthy.