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There was a time when Nicola Sturgeon would have been delighted to be spoken of in the same breath as Hillary Clinton.

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Two formidable female politicians putting the world to rights, basking in the appreciation of all around.

Now though there are some who believe she could be about to face a similar public battle to Clinton's in the 2016 US election, when she was consistently met with chants from MAGA supporters of "lock her up".

They were incensed by the use of a private email address for government businesses when she was Secretary of State - and by the fact an FBI investigation concluded Clinton had been "extremely careless" but there were no criminal charges.

Nicola Sturgeon is not standing for office of course, but there is a belief held by some that she has in some way escaped justice, while her estranged husband Peter Murrell, is in fact locked up.

Murrell - one-time chief executive of the SNP, the party she led - is in jail, awaiting sentencing after admitting embezzling more than £400,000 from party funds over a 12 year period.

Nicola Sturgeon was part of the police investigation that landed him there. She was arrested, but never charged.

How did she not notice his randomly ludicrous, expensive shopping........

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