Joining us now with reaction from Washington, Tom Finton, the president of Judicial Watch, the group which uncovered these new emails. If they didn’t, she can and should be held accountable by voters. Her relationships with the Clintons goes back decades.
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Previously undisclosed emails released Tuesday by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group and frequent Clinton antagonist, show exchanges of emails between her aides and officials at the foundation.
In one of the emails, a Clinton Foundation executive pressed for access for a donor – a Lebanese/Nigerian billionaire – to the proper State Department official to talk about the businessman’s interests in Lebanon.
Clinton has faced enduring doubts about her trustworthiness and honesty throughout the entirety of the presidential campaign. “And the government should be turning that information over, when you have a breakdown in that system, we have a breakdown in our democracy”. “The Clintons don’t want us to get everything”.
Despite this claim, there has been no concrete evidence linking State Department favors to foreign donors in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation.
At least the media is beginning to report on these emails like they do matter.
“Make a false statement that overreaches and hope it changes the conversation from his comments yesterday casually inciting violence”, he said in a statement.
The Clinton Foundation was not part of the recent investigation into her private server; it was separate.
Of the 30,000 emails turned over to the State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation found that 110 messages in 52 chains contained information that was classified at the time, of which eight were Top Secret, 36 were Secret and eight were Confidential.
A new batch of personal server e-mails sheds light on the relationship between the Clinton foundation and the state department when she was secretary.
The prolonged investigations into her use of a private email server while at the State Department has fuelled public distrust of her and plagued her presidential bid. They were released last September. FBI Director James Comey revealed in July that the agency had recovered several thousand work-related emails that were not in the 30,490 Clinton had turned over. Now, it appears some quid pro quo was going on between her foundation and the State Department.
“A couple of very bad ones came out and it’s called pay-for-play and some of these were really, really bad – and illegal”.
Band, who declined Wednesday to comment, had the credentials to get the State Department’s attention.
Some of the emails Clinton didn’t turn over suggested she may have rewarded foundation donors and helped the foundation collect millions of dollars from controversial countries and organizations. But Department of Justice lawyers informed Contreras Wednesday night that “the [State] department discovered errors in the manner in which the searches had been conducted in order to capture documents potentially responsive to plaintiff’s request”.
Donald Trump said the emails showed Clinton engaged in “pay-for-play” practices.
“We need Gilbert chagoury to speak to the substance person re lebanon”, reads the email from Band. Another email showed Band had tried to connect major donor Gilbert Chagoury with the USA ambassador to Lebanon.
Feltman told CNN yesterday that he never met with Chagoury.
The FBI wanted to pursue a lead from a bank that tipped them off to suspicious activity from a foreigner who had donated to the Clinton Foundation.
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“Neither of these emails involve the secretary or relate to the Foundation’s work”, Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin told CNN in an emailed statement.
