Judicial Watch released 296 pages of Hillary Clinton’s email records Tuesday as part of its lawsuit against the State Department, including 44 government email exchanges that had not previously been turned over to the State Department.
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And if you can’t do that at the State Department, then you certainly can’t do it in the Oval Office.
The Clinton campaign was quick to push back on the insinuations drawn from the cozy conversations contained in the emails.
What’s in the New Emails?
Banks informed the field offices about suspicious activity concerning the Clinton Foundation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation sought to probe conflicts of interest arising out of foreign donations, according to the documents, which carry 296 pages of emails from the Democratic presidential nominee, released by Judicial Watch. The name was withheld from the document.
In 2009, Doug Band, an official of the Clinton Foundation, sent an email to Huma Abedin, a close aide aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Abedin replied: “We have all had him on our radar” and “Personnel has been sending him options”.
When pressed today, the State Department would not say who the emails referred to, citing privacy concerns. Band asked the aides to get Chagoury in touch with the State Department’s “substance person” on Lebanon.
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.
Abedin responded: “It’s jeff feltman”, referring to Jeffrey Feltman, who was the USA ambassador to Lebanon at the time. As secretary, she pledged to keep her official world and her family’s foundation separate, and she failed to keep them separate enough. But CNN’s own reporting debunks these claims, explaining that Mills was not a paid employee at the Clinton Foundation and the State Department permitted employees to engage in outside volunteer activities while on personal time.
The State Department again denied there was a conflict of interest and said a trip Mills took to NY to conduct business for the Clinton Foundation complied with ethics laws.
“We feel confident that all the rules were followed”, said Trudeau, without addressing the question of whether the department had even looked into the problematic situation.
Pence taped the interview with Wallace on Friday in Indianapolis, and in a clip released by Fox News ahead of this week’s edition of Fox News Sunday, Wallace asked Pence about the latest Clinton campaign controversy.
The Clinton campaign asserted that none of the most recently released e-mails relate to her work at the Clinton Foundation.
After newly released emails from Hillary Clinton raised questions about connections between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as secretary of State, the State Department came to her aide.
Still, Trump didn’t hesitate to hit Clinton on her comments about putting the coal industry and miners “out of business”, for which she later apologized during a campaign stop in West Virginia, where the economy heavily relies on the coal industry.
Donald Trump has described the emails as “pay for play”, without producing any evidence of an exchange of money or political favors. “It is really, really bad and her behavior is illegal”. “You’re paying and you’re getting things”.
“Important to take care of [name redacted]”, the email said. Comey also said in her position as Secretary of State, she should have known better.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Osceola Heritage Park, in Kissimmee, Fla. Watch him lay down the law and expose Hillary’s most vulnerable subject, the Clinton Foundation.
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A spokesman for the Department of Justice said they have received Cornyn’s letter and will review it.
