7 Issues Where Donald Trump is MORE Libertarian than Gary Johnson

Crimes of National Security.

If you take Top Secret / SCI information, remove the header, and send it over an unclassified network, you have committed a crime.  Whether you say you “intended” to commit a crime or not is irrelevant.  As someone who has served in the military, worked in the Defense Department, and in the Intelligence world, I have two decades of experience in dealing with classified information.  You cannot “accidentally” do what Hillary Clinton did anymore than you can accidentally use advanced data wiping techniques to sanitize your hard drives before an investigation and claim ignorance.  Hillary Clinton got away with federal crimes because of her position.  There is no other interpretation of what happened.

Gary Johnson defended Hillary.

Donald Trump wants her arrested.

Libertarians are for decriminalizing personal choices, such as drug use, but is the party for allowing powerful people to avoid responsibility for their own actions?  I don’t think so.

Conclusion.

Does all of this mean that Donald Trump is really the one true Libertarian running for president?  Not exactly, but these are seven reasons why Gary Johnson deserves a little more scrutiny.  When the Libertarian nominee claims that he agrees with the self-professed Socialist candidate 73% of the time, it should give any Libertarian a reason to step back and take a wider view.