Posted on 08/23/2016 12:54:12 PM PDT by Smittie
AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urged the Justice Department on Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate if donors to the Clinton Foundation got special treatment from the State Department when it was run by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
Trump made the appeal at a rally before thousands of cheering supporters in Akron, Ohio, as he tries to rebound from a slide in national opinion polls with little more than two months to go until the Nov. 8 election.
Trump accused former President Bill Clinton and his wife of turning the Clinton Foundation charity into a "pay-for-play" scheme in which wealthy donors, foreign and domestic, got favors from the State Department during Hillary Clinton's 2009-2013 tenure as the country's top diplomat.
Trump faulted both the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation for not indicting Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state. FBI Director James Comey cited her careless handling of classified emails but opted not to prosecutor her.
"The Justice Department is required to appoint a special prosecutor because it has proved to be, sadly, a political arm of the White House," Trump said. "Nobody has ever seen anything like it before."
Trump's appeal came the same day a conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, released 725 pages of State Department documents, including some it said were examples of preferential treatment provided to donors at the request of former Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band.
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Tar and feather, lamp-post , firing squad. No need for a special prosecutor.
Where is the GOPe on this?
My theory is that they scream for it, but they really don’t want it. Neither party wants it. They all have so much dirt on them that if an independent prosecutor started digging around there’d libel to be 535 indictments handed down.
[Where is the GOPe on this?]
They’re hiding in their donors basements.
They’re shaking too because they would likely be giving their depositions to the special prosecutor.
You bet!! Look at the GOPe who have backed Hillary. Shows you all you need.
HOORAY Trump
An American with a backbone BUMP!
This just in from the AP: “More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.”
The Democrats have never faced a Republican candidate who plays by knife fight rules (i.e. no rules). For those of us who have longed for someone to punch back harder than he’s been punched our day seems to have arrived.
I’ve wondered why the Republicans never call for one...
Because MOST of them are involved in the Bribery Scams, and most likely receive a big bag of cash Monthly to keep quiet. They are in right up to their Eyeballs.
Very good idea, but we all know it isnt going to happen. Not until Trump is POTUS, anyway.
Was he out in front of the AP?
Looks like it.
I’m not sure what the current polls say. I tried a search for current ones but just ended up in a vicious loop. I’m just surprised the media hadn’t already called the election for the Hildabeast...
Maybe if Ambassador Stevens had donated to the Clinton Crime Foundation he would have gotten the military support he needed in Benghazi.
Hillary only helps those that have paid the bribe.
“Where is the GOPe on this?”
Same place as always. Hiding under their desks.
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