Quote:The legal concept is the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, information obtained illegally cannot be considered admissible. The trouble with lawyers is that they cannot deal with real life outside the structure of the courtroom, in this case that the CONTENT of the e-mails still matter regardless of HOW the content was obtained.

I get what you're saying in regards to the legal aspect, but in the Big Picture of how it ruined Clinton's chances of winning, she was already a dead woman walking with all of her baggage. I don't see how what was put out there made that big of a difference in how people decided to vote for her. I wonder how many Sanders supporters still voted for her even after the DNC hung him out to dry. If I were a democrat I either wouldn't have voted or would have written a name in. And that would have nothing to do with anything that was leaked. She is just a hideous example of a human being.

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