Just two days earlier, Clinton's campaign had less to say when a judge denied a request by attorneys for technology specialist Bryan Pagliano -- one of several former Clinton aides or State Department employees deposed in the ongoing investigation into the former secretary's email account -- to prevent his deposition from being taped. And just seven days earlier, the conservative legal group Judicial Watch released the deposition of another former State Department employee, one it had fought to make public.

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Thursday's attempted point-scoring largely served to demonstrate how some of the most damaging Clinton and Trump story lines cancel each other out, no matter their attempts to capitalize on them. When Clinton dared Trump to "delete his account," Republican National Committee Chairman had a joke ready:

When Clinton suggested that anyone being "watched for terrorist links" by the FBI should be denied a gun, an editor at the conservative Federalist made the obvious joke: