After Mar-a-Lago Raid, Hillary Clinton Promotes 'But Her Emails' Hats And Other Apparel

Six years after losing the 2016 Presidential Election to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has once again emerged in an attempt to needle her former political rival, one day after his Florida Mar-a-Lago home was raided by the FBI.

This afternoon, Clinton posted on her official Twitter account that her team had come up with some hats to sell. The hats read "But her emails," referring to a refrain that dogged her candidacy in the 2016 election.

Every “But her emails” hat or shirt sold helps @onwardtogether partners defend democracy, build a progressive bench, and fight for our values.Just saying!https://t.co/4TiUxjmRNY pic.twitter.com/rflM8fTAbw

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 9, 2022

In 2016, many Republicans attempted and arguably succeeded in making the controversy a prominent hurdle for her campaign, which revolved around Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State when she used her personal email to communicate confidential memos relating to foreign affairs and regional security in Libya that reportedly put national security at risk.

For many Democrats, the issue was small potatoes compared to the perceived threat Trump posed. After he won, almost every one of his many scandals as President was met with a refrain of "But her emails!" as though to chide others for making such a big deal out of the issue to the point where it swung the election in Trump's favor.

Now that Trump is in a massive pickle that appears to be related to his apparent unwillingness to hand over documents from his time as President that could be relevant to national security, Clinton has taken the opportunity to fundraise on the back of his misfortune with $30 hats and other apparel like T-shirts.

"Every 'but her emails' hat or shirt sold helps @onwardtogether partners defend democracy, build a progressive bench, and fight for our values," she tweeted. The hats, available for preorder, apparently sold out within hours, and more are being stocked.

As Clinton is one of the more polarizing figures in American politics, critics on both the political left and right of her expressed their disdain at the hats, as some on the right argued that she should be "locked up," while other people on the left argued that the hats were simply dumb.

Presidential Records Act enforcement for thee, but not for me https://t.co/CtgMsrqprx

— Eli Lake (@EliLake) August 9, 2022

If I see yall wearing this in public im treating you like you wearing a MAGA hat https://t.co/rmQsn0LI5I

— STOP DONATING TO BLM NATIONAL AND SHAUN KING (@WrittenByHanna) August 9, 2022

Sigma tip #1: one man's suffering is a girlboss' profit margin https://t.co/8TYPHaRY7Q

— cade (@Cadeyrnn) August 9, 2022

It appears that we'll never be free of the 2016 election, as it will continue to be litigated over and over again for the rest of time by Clinton, Trump and supporters of both candidates.