Wikileaks’ release of the first 1% of the emails hacked from long time Clinton insider John Podesta has threatened to distract voters from thinking about the really important issue: Trump’s locker room talk with a member of the Bush Clan.

How to handle the revelation that Hillary told Brazilian bankers in private in 2013 that her dream is “hemispheric” “open trade and open borders”? ABC News has come up with the so-stupid-it’s-clever angle that “open trade and open borders” means just “open trade” because “open borders” doesn’t have anything to do with immigration:

Clinton’s Apparent Call for ‘Open Borders’ on Trade Draws Scrutiny From Right and Left

By MARYALICE PARKS

Oct 8, 2016, 5:25 PM ET Hillary Clinton is facing new scrutiny from both the political left and right this weekend after leaked emails from her campaign appear to reveal some of what she said behind closed doors to Wall Street firms. In one of more than 2,000 emails posted Friday night on the hacking website Wikileaks, Clinton’s research director Tony Carrk appeared to write to top campaign officials about Clinton’s now infamous paid speeches, saying, “Attached are the flags from HRC’s paid speeches.” The email goes on to include several text excerpts with dates and times. In this batch, Clinton makes sweeping statements about two areas that have consistently been an issue for her in this campaign: Wall Street reform and trade. According to one of the leaked emails, Clinton told Banco Itau in 2013, “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders … Clinton has faced serious skepticism from progressives throughout this campaign over her evolving and sometimes elusive stance on trade, specifically her flip-flopping on President Obama’s proposed transpacific partnership trade deal by initially showing and then withdrawing support for the plan.

“Immigration” and similar words don’t appear in the ABC article, just talk about Hillary’s “evolving” stance on trade. You see, “open borders” means “open trade.” When the Wall Street Journal started editorializing for a “There shall be open borders” Constitutional amendment way back in the 1980s, they just meant free trade, not unlimited immigration. Hillary just said “open trade and open borders” for the sake of redundancy’s sake, not because she was endorsing unlimited immigration from the Western Hemisphere.

After all, who ever thinks about immigration policy? Besides racists? And Democrat electoral strategists? (But they’re good, so it’s good when they think about immigration.)

In Vox, Matthew Yglesias, who worked for Podesta, tries a different strategem:

The lesson of Hillary’s secret speeches is she’s exactly who we already knew she was

Updated by Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias [email protected] Oct 7, 2016, 9:00p … By contrast, we also learn that she told a Brazilian bank in 2013 that “my dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.” This will, naturally, confirm the fears of the paranoid anti-immigration right but it will do so precisely because it’s what they already think Clinton believes — Donald Trump’s been running around saying Clinton favors open borders for months. The more skeptical among us will note that nothing in her extensive record in office in any way supports the idea that she is working to create a hemispheric common market.

The fears of the paranoid anti-immigration right are not that she’s been publicly working on one, but that more immigration is, as she said, her “dream.”

After all, there wasn’t even much secret speech evidence 14 months ago that Angela Merkel wanted to invite in a million Muslim mob. But then she did.

Merkel seems to now think that was a mistake, but in late September Hillary went out of her way to praise in public Merkel for doing with the refugees what Merkel now wishes she hadn’t done. Hillary has repeatedly signaled in public that she hasn’t learned anything from Merkel’s Boner.

“Open borders” is as Hillary said, her “dream” for “the future.”

Her 2016 platform and campaign materials call for a lot of steps in that direction, without explicitly acknowledging the ultimate goal.

Further, events happen. What does Hillary decide when, say, a flash mob assembles at the border and she’s faced with Angela’s Choice?