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IsHillary Clintonhaving a laugh?
The former Secretary of State, 74,tweeteda link Monday to merchandise she inspired with the tagline “but her emails” – a jab at former PresidentDonald Trump.
“Take a sip from your new mug as you read the news…,” Clinton wrote, posting the headline fromThe Washington Post’srecent deep dive into Trump’sreported paper-shredding, along with a “but her emails” mug.
The picture sparked a thousand memes when her use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State came into question on the 2016 campaign trail – which her opponent Trump, 75, constantly criticized as suspicious. (After a years-long investigation, the FBI determined that Clinton should not face criminal charges for the transgression, perCNN.)
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More specifically, ripped-up and reconstructed documents were among the more than 700 pages turned over to Jan. 6 investigators,The Washington Postreported last month.(The Jan. 6 committee did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for a comment; neither did a Trump spokeswoman.)
Trump had fought to keep the bipartisan House of Representatives committee from reviewing the documents as part of their investigation into the deadly rioting last year.
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The former president has a longstanding habit of destroying files, perPolitico,which reported in 2018that he preferred to tear them up once finished with them — a problem after he took office.
Government employees were required to reconstruct the files, in keeping with the law.
“I had a letter from [Sen. Chuck] Schumer — he tore it up,” one official toldPolitico. “It was the craziest thing ever. He ripped papers into tiny pieces.”
In order to comply with this requirement, according toPolitico’s 2018 report, officials were tasked with sorting through piles of President Trump’s ripped up pages as small as confetti and reconstructing them with Scotch tape to put them back together “like a jigsaw puzzle.”
source: people.com
