Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has renewed his call for the Clinton Foundation to be shut down, doubling down on his accusation that the charity group represents a conflict of interest for his rival, Hillary Clinton.
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Trump also attacked the Department of Justice as “a political arm of the White House”, insinuating, as he often does that the department’s lawyers are shielding Clinton from charges stemming from her use of a private email server and her dealings with the Clinton Foundation.
Trump told supporters at a rally in Akron, Ohio, that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation did a “whitewash” on Clinton’s use of private e-mail at the State Department, and “they certainly can not be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clinton’s crimes”.
“No state has been hurt more by the Hillary Clinton trade policies than Ohio”, Trump said in a reference to the loss of jobs he attributed to the North American Free Trade Agreement on Bill Clinton’s watch and Mrs. Clinton’s support of succeeding trade agreements.
Trump spent much of a Monday campaign speech in Akron, Ohio, on what he describes as the “vast scope” of Hillary Clinton’s “criminality”, saying he is shocked by it.
“At least two primary constitutional departments are being corrupted – State and Justice”, Trump said. Trump’s request that Russian hackers search for Clinton’s 33,000 missing emails led to questions of whether he would be committing treason by asking foreign agents to hack a USA presidential candidate.
“We’re going to build the wall, folks”.
Last week, the Clinton Foundation announced it would suspend foreign and corporate donations should Clinton win the presidential election this fall.
Clinton also commented on an issue that her campaign is now grappling with: How to prepare for debates against Trump.
Republican Donald Trump says the foundation should be shut down immediately. Yet, at the end of his remarks, the director said Clinton’s actions did not quite justify an indictment.
What needs to be addressed, actually, is Pierson’s own “behavior and mannerisms”, including her time-travelling assertions that President Obama and Clinton were responsible for the 2004 death of Army Capt. Humayun Khan (“It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life”) and alleging that Obama launched the 2001 war in Afghanistan (“Barack Obama went into Afghanistan, creating another problem”). He urged Trump to “come clean” with the electorate about the business mogul’s “complex network of for-profit businesses” that are in debt to big banks, the Bank of China and business groups with ties to Russian Federation. The former secretary of state visited the show for the first time as a candidate in November and once again in March.
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“Much of the foundation’s worldwide work, like that of most global NGOs, is funded in part by donor governments’ bilateral aid programs”. But none of the exchanges appeared to show a direct quid pro quo. The subpoenas were issued after the companies did not cooperate with a House committee’s investigation into the issue, said House Science panel Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas. “Honestly, I don’t think she’s all there”.
