New emails from Hillary Clinton released on Tuesday show her family-run Clinton Foundation tried to use her position as USA secretary of state to gain access to the state department.
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With criticism over his Wilmington speech still ringing in his ears, Donald Trump went on the offensive Wednesday, mocking rival Hillary Clinton after the latest release of emails from her time as Secretary of State.
It was obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative group, through a Freedom of Information lawsuit, one obviously meant to damage the reputation of Hillary Clinton during her presidential campaign.
Yesterday, Judicial Watch released written testimony from Mills, in which she provides further detail on how Clinton’s private email server was set up to address potentially security concerns.
In 2012, Clinton’s then-chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, traveled to NY to interview candidates for a top job at the Clinton Foundation, CNN found.
A new CNN investigation scandalizes the Clinton Foundation by baselessly suggesting that Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills possibly violated government ethics rules by simultaneously working for the State Department and volunteering for the Foundation. We do know Abedin wrote back, “We all have him on our radar”.
The FBI had investigated the Clinton Foundation’s relationship with the State Department during then-Secretary Hillary Clinton’s tenure, according to officials at the time.
One of those emails revealed that a top foundation official asked Mills and longtime Hillary aide Huma Abedin to set up a meeting between a billionaire donor and the USA ambassador to Lebanon.
The emails make clear that Band wanted to connect Chagoury with either Huma Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, or Jeffrey Feltman, then a senior State Department official, who had recently left a post as the ambassador to Lebanon.
Feltman told CNN yesterday that he never met with Chagoury.
Chagoury is a close friend of former US President Bill Clinton and a top donor to the Clinton Foundation, Judicial Watch said.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
In its 15 years, the Clinton Foundation has taken in more than $2 billion in donations from around the world, the Daily Caller reported. “[They] show the Clinton Foundation, Clinton donors, and operatives worked with Hillary Clinton in potential violation of the law”.
Because the DOJ was unable to find sufficient evidence, it pushed back against opening a case when meeting with the Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier in the year.
All of that occurred in the office of a secretary of state who had signed a pledge that read, “For the duration of my appointment as Secretary if I am confirmed, I will not participate personally and substantially in any particular matter involving specific parties in which The William J. Clinton Foundation (or the Clinton Global Initiative) is a party or represents a party”. Emails made public this week have deepened suspicions that donors were afforded access and favors that other outsiders could not get from the agency.
Chagoury, he said, “has had no personal contact with Secretary Clinton or any of her staff since 2006”. Her mission was to help the Clinton Foundation find a new leader, a source told CNN.
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Here’s what CNN justice correspondent Pamela Browne reported on Thursday, just before Clinton gave a speech in MI laying out her economic policies.
