The Daily Populous Thursday April 3rd, 2025 night edition
Authored by latintimes.com and submitted by PostHeraldTimes

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz's email usage has drawn ire from social media users after it was reported that the Trump administration cabinet member carried out official government business over unsecured email accounts despite criticizing Hillary Clinton for a similar offense.

Gmail, the email service Waltz had reportedly been using for official business, is much less secure than the Signal messaging app, the platform upon which several of the Trump administration's senior staff members discussed sensitive attack plans set to be carried out in Yemen and were exposed for doing so by an journalist mistakenly added to the group chat, according to The Washington Post.

Though administration officials, as well as President Donald Trump himself, have downplayed what is now being referred to as Signalgate, many users pointed out how several of the same officials had different opinions on national security in 2016, when it was revealed that Democratic presidential candidate and former First Lady Hillary Clinton used a private email server to conduct official business while serving as Secretary of State.

"The rigged system refused to prosecute her for conduct that put all of us, everybody in this room, everybody in this country at risk. Hillary Clinton went to great lengths to create a private email server and to bypass government security in order to keep her emails from being read by the public and by federal officials," Trump said while campaigning in Virginia in November 2016.

"Any security professional, military, government or otherwise, would be fired on the spot for this type of conduct and criminally prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information," then-Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth said about Clinton's private email server in 2016.

Users took to online platforms to highlight the perceived hypocrisy.

But her EMAILS! Hillary Hillary Hillary! Where is the Republican outrage on this? 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 — Denison Barb (@DenisonBarbs) April 1, 2025

"But her emails, right? @HillaryClinton used a private server and y'all wanted her locked up for treason," wrote one user. "Now we've got @michaelgwaltz and Governor Trump's National Security Council using Gmail and Signal to discuss classified military operations—and the @GOP is real quiet."

But her emails, right?@HillaryClinton used a private server and y’all wanted her locked up for treason.

Now we’ve got @michaelgwaltz and Governor Trump’s National Security Council using Gmail and Signal to discuss classified military operations—and the @GOP is real quiet.… — Frank C (@FrankC164) April 1, 2025

"Isn't this why Republicans wanted to 'Lock her up'?" wrote one user.

Isn’t this why Republicans wanted to “Lock her up”? — Deb 🪷 (@VoteDems24) April 1, 2025

"Remember the E-Mail gate of H Clinton? I hope they call for the same consequences as they did for her," wrote another.

Remember the E-Mail gate of H Clinton? I hope they call for the same consequences as they did for her. — Fabienne (@vividpulsar) April 1, 2025

"But Hilary Clinton's e-mails?" one user said, mocking officials who hounded Clinton for the scandal.

But Hilary Clinton’s e-mails? 🙄🙄🤡🤡 — Woon Cing Hsian 🇸🇬🇺🇦 (@CingHsian) April 1, 2025

"If Mike Waltz's last name was Clinton, he'd probably be prosecuted by now," said another.At the time, some experts had accused her of breaking state protocol and procedure.

If Mike Waltz’s last name was Clinton, he’d probably be prosecuted by now. — Walt Wang (@waltywang) April 1, 2025

After Clinton's email scandal was revealed, some experts accused her of breaking state protocol and procedure. Although no charges were brought against Clinton for her use of the private email, it became a key point of contention during her campaign.

reddittorbrigade on April 2nd, 2025 at 16:33 UTC »

Double Standard in America. They give special treatment to Trump and MAGA.

That is reality of life in America.

JadedIT_Tech on April 2nd, 2025 at 16:07 UTC »

Similar?

It's objectively worse since a private email server can be far more secure than a fucking gmail account.

TheRealJenneJ on April 2nd, 2025 at 16:05 UTC »

It is a false equivalence. Waltz's breach is much worse, because a) most of the material Hilary had on her server wasn't classified and b) her server was secure.

Edit: Name typo correction