After Mar-a-Lago Raid, Hillary Clinton Promotes 'But Her Emails' Hats And Other Apparel

August 9th, 2022 - 3:38 PM EDT by Adam Downer

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Hillary clinton but her emails hats promotional image from her twitter account.

Six years after losing the 2016 Presidential Election to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has once again emerged in an attempt to needle her former political rival, one day after his Florida Mar-a-Lago home was raided by the FBI.

This afternoon, Clinton posted on her official Twitter account that her team had come up with some hats to sell. The hats read "But her emails," referring to a refrain that dogged her candidacy in the 2016 election.


In 2016, many Republicans attempted and arguably succeeded in making the controversy a prominent hurdle for her campaign, which revolved around Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State when she used her personal email to communicate confidential memos relating to foreign affairs and regional security in Libya that reportedly put national security at risk.

For many Democrats, the issue was small potatoes compared to the perceived threat Trump posed. After he won, almost every one of his many scandals as President was met with a refrain of "But her emails!" as though to chide others for making such a big deal out of the issue to the point where it swung the election in Trump's favor.

Now that Trump is in a massive pickle that appears to be related to his apparent unwillingness to hand over documents from his time as President that could be relevant to national security, Clinton has taken the opportunity to fundraise on the back of his misfortune with $30 hats and other apparel like T-shirts.

"Every 'but her emails' hat or shirt sold helps @onwardtogether partners defend democracy, build a progressive bench, and fight for our values," she tweeted. The hats, available for preorder, apparently sold out within hours, and more are being stocked.

As Clinton is one of the more polarizing figures in American politics, critics on both the political left and right of her expressed their disdain at the hats, as some on the right argued that she should be "locked up," while other people on the left argued that the hats were simply dumb.


It appears that we'll never be free of the 2016 election, as it will continue to be litigated over and over again for the rest of time by Clinton, Trump and supporters of both candidates.


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