Never let anyone tell you memes do n’t weigh . That famous image of Hillary Clinton take care chill with her Blackberry actually prompt a authorities official to inquire about the status of her State Department email account . No one hear , and here we are now .
In a deposit this week , State Department official Karin Lang break some fresh details about the photo ’s bonkers history . Lang testified that the government knew that Clinton did n’t plan to use her official electronic mail destination back in 2008 or 2009 . Then the picture of Hillary wear sunglasses and looking at her earphone appeared in late 2011 , and Clarence Finney from the office that handles FOIA requests got curious .
“ When Mrs. Clinton ’s pic appear in the media with her using appearing to employ some sort of a nomadic equipment , Clarence Finney check with [ information direction staff ] to confirm … whether the answer was still that she did not have a State.gov e - chain mail account , ” Lang said in her testimonial .
Well , the inquiry did n’t go very far at the time , but the photograph went viral in 2012 . It spawned a consecrated Tumblr called “ Texts from Hillary , ” ablog postal service from Hillary herself , aMaureen Dowd column , atweet from Questlove , and many LOLs all around . However , we now know that the photo raised some care about her secretive electronic mail riding habit years beforethe controversyandFBI probeand endless discussion . Just yesterday , Donald Trumpreferred to the email conspiracyafter Hillary’s“delete your account”burn . ( To be fair , though , everyone has been look up to the email confederacy . )
Again , consort to Lang ’s testimony this calendar week at the Justice Department , Finney was “ tell apart at the beginning ” that Hillary would n’t use an prescribed email account . And then Finney followed up when he saw the now iconic photo . But imagine an alternating cosmos where Finney ’s enquiry had been taken more seriously . Hillary had been using that private host for a while by 2011 , but that ’s still years of secret emails that could have been obviate . Instead , all we got was this awesome meme .
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