SUMMARY:

Prosecutors finding new applications of old laws to charge Trump, his colleagues and supporters. Starting w/ Manafort and continuing to today. But Comey wouldn't charge Hillary because, despite all the elements of various crimes being present, no case with similar facts could be found where charges were brought. TELL THAT TO THE TRUMP PROSECUTORS!

DETAILS:

"The first grand jury indictment [Manafort] in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has thrust a little-known law, one intended to monitor foreign influence in American politics, into the spotlight."

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/11/3/16596484/fara-foreign-agents-registration-manafort-enforcement-scandal

And see the novel theories reportedly being utilized by Jack Smith on old laws in the expected new indictment against President Trump.

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-jack-smith-to-charge-trump-with-civil-war-era-violation-used-for-j6-prosecutions-mstef

I'm old enough to remember when then FBI director Comey [not in prosecutorial role but arrogantly assuming then-AG Lynch's prosecutor role because he found her compromised - without disclosing details (likely the tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton)] declared element after element of federal criminal statutes that were violated by Hillary … but then incongruently shut down any charges against her reportedly because "no case could be located that was filed on similar facts.

Then-FBI Director Jim Comey on Hillary's crimes:

"Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities.

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"From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.

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"With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level. There were no additional Top Secret e-mails found. Finally, none of those we found have since been “up-classified.”

… "there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

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"In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts."

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system

News flash: If elements of a crime have been met, they have been met [Hillary], whether you can find a past case or not. But twisting old law to fit targeted prosecution [of Trump, his supporters and colleagues] is fundamentally unfair and unconstitutional.

Moreover, if Comey's Hillary illogic were the standard, i.e., a case has to have been filed on similar facts before a current prosecutor can bring one, then no case could ever be brought under a new criminal statute and most, if not all, of the prosecutions against Trump, his colleagues and supporters should never have been filed.

And putting the merits - or lack thereof - of charging Trump, his colleagues and supportors on statutes never used in the manner(s) applied against them before, Comey had just listed element by element all of the requirments to establish the various crimes committed by Hillary - including extremely "careless" conduct - before saying no "reasonable prosecutor" would bring charges.

Double standards / 2-tiered systems of justice continue to applied shamelessly.