Letter: When did lying take over?
Should we as Americans believe what our president says when he speaks to the media?
President Barack Obama said on “60 Minutes,” hardly a Republican venue, that he discovered that Hillary Clinton used a private server for email through reports in the media at the same time the public learned of it.
Do you believe this is a horrible way for a president to get his news about his Secretary of State’s unauthorized server? The fact that he exchanged emails with her and they showed up on this particular server blows up his statement, even if the emails were stolen.
In a hacked/“stolen” email written on March 4, 2015, John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair, wrote to longtime Clinton aide Cheryl Mills: “Think we should hold emails to and from potus (president of the United States)? That’s the heart of his exec(utive) privilege. We could get them (the White House) to ask for that. They may not care, but i(t) seems like they will.”
Should the president be reduced to just another element to be used by a candidate’s campaign just to save his tarnished legacy?
Is that why presidents have executive privilege?
Among Obama, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, when did it become open policy for them to blatantly lie to the people?
Richard Geraghty
Bluffton
This story was originally published November 3, 2016 at 5:08 PM with the headline "Letter: When did lying take over?."