Distraction in The Age of Trump

In his Blog Stage 5 post, my colleague Will analyzes the effect of Hillary Clinton's emails on the current state of our government. He believes that the State Department may be purposely dragging its feet in regards to the release of the documents turned over to them, and therefore is undermining President Trump's power. He cites his sources and creates an effective argument. While I agree that we as a country need to settle and move on from this "scandal", I think that President Trump and others place too much emphasis on this issue. 
Like my colleague points out, Trump has been pushing for the public release and government probing of these documents since the beginning of his campaign. At first, it was a smart move on Trump's part to use Clinton's emails to diminish her credibility. Clinton has been under investigation surrounding this issue for years, and first turned over 30,000 emails to the FBI in early 2015. Since then, there have been lawsuits, more investigations by multiple agencies, and misleading accusations between the political parties. At the beginning of his presidency, Trump continued to push for the indictment of his opponent, and a Federal Judge ordered the State Department to process 500 of her emails a month, which they complied with (CNN). At no point has the State Department, or any government agency for that matter, ignored the rulings and prevented public information from getting out to the people.
On Thursday, November 9th, The Washington Post reported that a Federal Judge had thrown out a lawsuit from two conservative watchdog groups demanding that the government "shake the tree harder...for more emails". The judge contested the claim, saying that the FBI has done everything they could. At this point, and probably earlier, the issue is dead, but President Trump seems to be using it as a way to distract the public from his antics. He continues to beat the controversy because he doesn't want people to really take note of his inability to effectively lead our nation. As I said earlier, I agree with my colleague in that American citizens need to move on, but I don't think we will be able to until our President lets us.