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   WASHINGTON — It is the topic that the nation just can’t delete from its   
   political conversation: Hillary Clinton’s emails.   
      
   In the days since Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president to   
   face federal charges, Republicans across the ideological spectrum —   
   including not only Trump and his allies but also his critics and those who   
   see prosecutors’ evidence as damaging — have insistently brought up the 8-   
   year-old controversy.   
      
   They have peppered speeches, social media posts and television appearances   
   with fiery condemnations of the fact that Clinton, a figure who continues   
   to evoke visceral reactions among the Republican base, was never charged.   
      
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   The two episodes are vastly different legal matters, and Clinton was never   
   found to have systematically or deliberately mishandled classified   
   information. Still, Republicans have returned to the well with striking   
   speed, mindful that little more than the word “emails” can muddy the   
   waters, broadcast their loyalties and rile up their base.   
      
   “Lock her up,” chanted a woman at last weekend’s Georgia Republican Party   
   state convention, where Trump sought to revive the issue of Clinton’s   
   email use. “Hillary wasn’t indicted,” he said in a speech at the event.   
   “She should have been. But she wasn’t indicted.”   
      
   Campaigning in North Carolina, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis bashed Clinton’s   
   email practices while being far more circumspect in alluding to Trump, his   
   top rival for the Republican nomination.   
      
   Even former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has made criticizing Trump   
   a central theme of his presidential campaign, said on CNN recently that   
   the Justice Department “is at fault for not charging Hillary Clinton,”   
   while casting the facts laid out against Trump as “damning.”   
      
   “The perception is that she was treated differently,” Asa Hutchinson, a   
   former Arkansas governor, a 2024 presidential candidate and a Trump   
   critic, said in an interview Monday. “Perception can become a reality very   
   quickly.”   
      
   Hutchinson, once a chief Clinton antagonist from former President Bill   
   Clinton’s home state — he helped guide impeachment proceedings against   
   Bill Clinton — said he saw distinctions between Hillary Clinton’s email   
   episode and the charges Trump faced. But, he added, “If the voters say   
   it’s relevant, it becomes relevant politically.”   
      
   Taken together, the moment offers a vivid reminder of the ways the ghosts   
   of the 2016 campaign continue to shape and scar American politics.   
      
   “There are few politicians on the Democratic side of the aisle that raise   
   the ire of Republicans more than Hillary Clinton,” said Neil Newhouse, a   
   veteran Republican pollster.   
      
   Clinton and her supporters, of course, have not forgotten the email saga.   
   After Trump’s indictment, the episode to many of them serves as a symbol   
   of a political system and a mainstream news media often focused on the   
   superficial at the expense of the substantive.   
      
   Clinton backers now make light of what they view as comparatively flimsy   
   and unproven accusations she faced about her use of a private email server   
   when she was secretary of state. And some relish the fact that the man who   
   crowed about “Crooked Hillary” finds himself facing a range of serious   
   charges and the prospect of prison if he is convicted.   
      
   Speaking Monday with the hosts of the “Pod Save America” podcast at the   
   Tribeca Film Festival in New York, Clinton laughed when a host noted the   
   tendency of some Republicans to make parallels to her emails.   
      
   “When in doubt, right?” she said. “I do think it’s odd, let’s just say, to   
   the point of being absurd, how that is their only response. You know, they   
   refuse to read the indictment, they refuse to engage with the facts.”   
      
   On Friday, Clinton posted an edited photo of herself on Instagram wearing   
   a black baseball hat that reads, in pink letters, “BUT HER EMAILS.” That   
   three-word phrase has become something of a shorthand among Democrats for   
   frustration at the grief she received for how she handled classified   
   correspondence compared with the blowback Trump confronted for all the   
      
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