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Lawyers and doctors and other people who deal with the ugly side of humanity have to detach themselves sometimes. Hillary has done some deeds and made some decisions in her actual political career that need to be evaluated, but trying to pretend her remarks about her client and his polygraph from her first defense case mean she was laughing at a raped child is a hell of a stretch and quite frankly sounds stupid and irrelevant.
Also she really didn't want the case and tried to beg off, but was not allowed to.
But it's not just a "story". A 12 year old girl was raped. Clinton knew her client was guilty. She got him off due to missing evidence. She was proud of her win. No empathy for the victim. This was just a notch on her belt. A story to tell at cocktail parties. For the victim it was a life altering rape.
Yes, I got that. What is unclear to me is why there is a different expectation.
Hillary has never come off as a warm fuzzy person. She is a lawyer and a politician. She does not seem to have cared much about the victim in the case. She actually appears to not even mention or acknowledge the existence of the victim. But it is dishonest to try to make it sound as if she is somehow laughing at or mocking the victim. That is not what she did.
Last edited by Mightyqueen801; 10-09-2016 at 07:14 PM..
The rapist got time served which was 2 months for raping a 12 year old girl. The thing that's irritating about the tape is that Clinton sounds quite proud of winning her first case and completely oblivious to the fact that there was a 12 year old victim who did not get justice because the crime lab screwed up and lost evidence which was the victim's blood on the perps underwear.
No, the rapist got 5 years reduced to 1 year with credit for the two months served in county jail. Pathetic sentence for rape, but that was the judge's call.
Hmm, but the victim is at the debate, so let's see if anything comes up.
You're question doesn't actually make grammatical sense. I'm just starting with that to get it out of the way. You ask to questions in one sentence and while the second one kind of makes sense, though you "forget" to explain what you mean or give context, the first one either says why her laughing (just in general) or her laughing at treatment of a child rape victim (none of those words need to be capitalized) receive criticism. Laughing doesn't warrant criticism and anyone who listens to that interview would not think she was laughing because a child was raped. At best, she was laughing at the absurdity of the situation because what else was she to do?
It might seem wrong, but a public defender's job is to defend the defendant. Which most people are just aware of but not when you introduce politics. Then it's a big old ****ing surprise to a bunch of Republicans with nothing better to argue. She was assigned to the case by a judge; she actually did not want the case. But she did her job and because of varying unexpected circumstances, such as the defendant passing a polygraph test and mishandled evidence, the defendants sentence was reduced.
I get the victims point. I'm sympathetic to it. But in reality, what she's arguing just isn't how the system works, for better or worse. The accused have a right to an attorney. What sort of world would we live in if attorney's could just not give a **** because they think the defendant is guilty? From the interview, it sounds like she was genuinely surprised that he passed the polygraph test; from there, she had an obligation to do her job and get his sentenced reduced. Let's keep in mind, guilty people getting their sentenced reduced is not actually uncommon. Granted, this guy got off with just a few months, which is unusual, but as Clinton does point out, a lot of things that happened in that case were unusual, which seems to be why she was laughing. Rather or not that laughter is appropriate, it's untrue to say she's laughing because a child was raped.
let's just get this election over with. Its like waiting to get a leg cut off without anesthesia.
This election decides whether we get our foot cut off or our leg cut off, because Clinton and Trump have vastly different tax policies, spending policies, and future effects on our national debt.
Donald Trump's supply side tax cuts will give the 60% of American workers making $15,600 to $50,900 a year 13% of his tax cuts, and then give the richest 5% of Americans 51% of his tax cuts. But Hillary Clinton will raise taxes on the richest 2%.
And the reduction of tax revenues from Trumps tax cuts for the richest 5% of Americans will stop $350 billion dollars from being spent on improving college education, stop $300 billion dollars from being spent on infrastructure repairs, stop $300 billion dollars from being spent on paid family leave, and stop nearly half a trillion dollars being spent on similar initiatives.
What happens if our national debt goes up to 145% of GDP? There is a chance if our debt rises to 145% of GDP our whole economy could collapse, the US dollar could loose most of its value, other countries would be scared of holding US currency, ex.ex.
Is it worth risking the economic collapse of America just to give the richest 5% of Americans tax cuts?
This election is about whether we get our foot cut off or our leg cut off (and I for one choose the foot.)
Because the story is false. She was appointed to defend him
Watch the first video. She wasn't appointed to defend him. She was asked to do so as a favor, and she complied. And then she laughed about getting the child rapist's sentence reduced to time already served, only 2 months.
That incident and her laughter about it exhibits Hillary's truly heinous disregard for both women and children.
No, the rapist got 5 years reduced to 1 year with credit for the two months served in county jail. Pathetic sentence for rape, but that was the judge's call.
That's not what Hillary said in the interview. She said he only served two months.
Watch the first YouTube video in the OP.
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