Throughout the presidential election, Donald Trump has continued to use “law and order” as a tactic to achieve voters. He has uses this rhetoric mainly with the issue of police brutality but also has squeezed it into Hilary Clinton’s email scandal. Trump has continued to say that he will “Make America Safe Again” and that if elected president, he will have Hillary put in jail. Trump is channeling the law and order rhetoric into the viewer’s mind that if Hillary were to be elected, then America will not be safe and “put our national security at risk.
“The “October Surprise” was released last Friday stating that:
“FBI Director James Comey notified congressional leaders that the agency had discovered more emails as part of its probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email system. The emails were discovered as part of an investigation into former Congress member Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Abedin reportedly stored hundreds of thousands of emails on Weiner’s computer, which was seized by the FBI after Weiner allegedly sent illicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl.”
Trump certainty welcomed this information on his campaign trail and used it to his advantage. He recently displayed a nasty commercial sourcing from the FBI’s email announcement about “Crooked Hilary” which he refers to her as on Twitter.
Trump is now back on the FBI fan train because they are in favor of him and anti-Hillary. These emails have now created more controversy not only with Hillary but also with the FBI director, James Comey. Was it morally right for him to release this information just 11 days before the general election when it could have been a private matter? If the roles were reversed and information was released about Trump, he would be using “law and order” to say that the FBI is corrupt and out to get him but instead he gladly kept his mouth shut and used the information to his advantage.
According to a former FBI official, “There are lots of people who don’t think Trump is qualified, but also believe Clinton is corrupt…What you hear a lot is that it’s a bad choice, between an incompetent and a corrupt politician.” Has Trump done a good enough job at deflecting his unpredictable and unqualified persona onto the corrupt Hillary? Is this “October Surprise” enough to change last minute voter’s mind? We will see next week after the winner is revealed.
I am interested to see how much of an effect this October surprise will have on the polls this upcoming week. It was quite the bomb shell that was dropped as the FBI reopened these allegations but it may be too little to late to have a real effect. I am wondering how long this will continue after the election. Could we see a presidential elect that is under criminal investigation for years to come?