Perhaps the biggest news story of the year will be that Attorney General Loretta Lynch declined an Federal Bureau of Investigation request to investigate the Clinton Foundation and its relationship with the activities at the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
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What’s in the New Emails? “As you know, he’s key guy there and to us and is loved in Lebanon”. “There was an email that came out in this recent set that is between the – an executive at the Clinton Foundation and Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills where he is requesting to set up a meeting between a billionaire donor and the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon”.
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.
One email showed that foundation official Doug Band had pushed Clinton aides to hire a foundation associate.
Mills’ trip from Washington, D.C., to NY by a top Clinton aide in 2012 seems to raise the same potential issues.
After serving on Bill Clinton’s White House staff, Band became his chief adviser after he left office, helping him create the Clinton Global Initiative, a part of the Clinton Foundation and its global charitable efforts, which has gathered billions of dollars in donations and commitments from a sprawling collection of affluent donors and foundations.
The secrecy about the NY trip, the dual roles played by trusted assistants, the mixing of business between State, Clinton Foundation and its donors, all play a central theme of Donald Trump’s campaign – that politicians like the Clintons use the government to benefit themselves.
The Clinton campaign aide said that the person was a “young advance staffer” who was not a donor or a Foundation employee, however.
“They are communications between her aides and (former President Bill Clinton’s) personal aide, and indeed the recommendation was for one of the Secretary’s former staffers who was not employed by the Foundation”, campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin told the network. “It is really, really bad and her behavior is illegal”.
Trump’s comments Wednesday come as he is trying to put his latest self-induced controversy to bed after suggesting Tuesday that “Second Amendment people” could take action to prevent Clinton from appointing Supreme Court justices who might oppose gun rights, should she be elected president.
Yes. The FBI says it recovered thousands of emails Clinton did not turn over and that many of them are work related. He had not been seeking official action by the State Department.
The Department’s spokeswoman said she has “no information” and was “unable to speak” on the matter.
All this comes after Clinton once again insisted, “T$3 here is absolutely no connection between anything that I did as secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation”. FBI Director James Comey dubbed this Clinton claim as “not true”, saying the FBI “found thousands that were not returned”, but perhaps more disturbing than Clinton’s disclosure mistruth was what some suggest is a “pay for play” scheme that could violate Clinton’s ethics agreement with the State Department.
The Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes said Thursday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that newly revealed e-mails continue to raise questions about impropriety between the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton State Department.
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“I’m also not going to speak to specific redactions”, she replied, stressing that she can’t “speak to specific cases”.
