Oh, my! Onetime “Star Trek” cast member turned LGBT advocate George Takei has a short memory. I’m not entirely sure how it translates to Romulan years, but it was less than six Earth months ago that would-be president Hillary Clinton’s having maintained a private email server while secretary of state and subsequent deletion of 33,000 emails topped the daily news cycle.
Takei seems to have forgotten all about that, judging from a tweet he posted Sunday:
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
If you've been told to preserve evidence in advance of investigations and you start erase your texts and emails, you will go to jail. https://t.co/kYwhztwSJ4
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 26, 2017
The admonition is based on the flimsiest of suppositions, harking back to a claim by MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that the Trump administration is purging phones in anticipation of forthcoming subpoenas. In the video embedded in the third-party tweet below, Mitchell indicates that her information comes from a single unnamed source.
Just seeing this from @mitchellreports—WH officials, fmr. transition staffers are reportedly purging phones b/c they expect to be subpoenaed pic.twitter.com/JqhPKVJUfz
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 25, 2017
Needless to say, a number of Twitter users who saw Takei’s tweet took a moment out to jog his memory:
Yup. Hillary's subpoenaed 33,000 emails deleted & bleach Bit'd landed her in prison for life, no wait… she's still free? pic.twitter.com/zI8LMIMPgm
— Miner Forty-Niner (@DoubleEagle49) March 26, 2017
Your girl Hillary did just that & you never said a word https://t.co/kWwxVFwHNZ
— Jon Stall ???? M4A (@JonStall2009) March 27, 2017
what are your thoughts on bleachbit and hammers..? https://t.co/EsmQJU9gDD
— LAZARUS⌛️ (@Terra_Nulius) March 26, 2017
It’s anybody’s guess whether the irony of Lt. Sulu’s tweet will register with him. Liberal activists tend to be pretty dug in.
(h/t Weasel Zippers)