Contending that the U.S. Department of Justice has acted unethically in its investigation into Clinton’s private email server use – particularly in regards to a controversial meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton – Trump said the agency “has proven itself to be a political arm of the White House”. Recent Reuters/Ipsos opinion polls have found Clinton increasing her lead over Trump during August.
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“Donald Trump should stop hiding behind fake excuses and release his tax returns and immediately disclose the full extent of his business interests”, Mr. Podesta said.
He is accusing the foundation of so-called pay for play access to the state department in exchange for donations to the foundation, even calling for a special prosecutor to investigate, “The amounts involved, the favors done, and the significant number of times it was done, require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor”. Last week, Trump shook up his campaign’s top leadership, putting Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway in top jobs.
Some of Clinton’s most influential visitors donated millions to the Clinton Foundation and to her and her husband’s political coffers.
“This is an absurd call by Donald Trump”.
“That’s not amusing”, she said to Kimmel. “After the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice whitewash of the Clinton email crimes, they certainly can not be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clinton’s new crimes, which happen all the time”.
The Clinton Foundation needs to return every dollar it received in foreign donations, the Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus said in a Twitter message on Tuesday. On Sunday, the foundation announced it would no longer accept foreign donations if Clinton is elected and that the group is prepared to hand off programs to other charity organizations.
Later during the interview, the topic then shifted to news that the State Department plans to release 15,000 new emails before the debate deadline.
Democrats are hopeful Trump is making an issue of the foundation too late for it to make a difference. Some emails that surfaced on Monday were held back by Ms. Clinton from the FBI that investigated the case regarding a private server that she used while in office.
Clinton also leads over Trump among Hispanic voters, 73 per cent to 22 per cent and with Asian-American voters, 66 per cent to 23 per cent.
They fear their party could see its fortunes mauled as a outcome of two factors: large-scale demographic changes that make the landscape less hospitable for the GOP, and Trump’s startlingly poor performance so far with normally reliable pillars of Republican support, such as college-educated whites.
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When host Jimmy Kimmel asked Clinton point blank if she is in good health, she offered up her wrist so he could take her pulse, joking “Make sure I’m alive!”
