Latest Clinton scandal is nothing compared to Second Amendment quote
Aug 11, 2016, 5:44 AM | Updated: Aug 12, 2016, 8:53 am
As the now-familiar Donald Trump Second Amendment quote made the rounds yet again, Trump was complaining that the mainstream media was ignoring the latest Hillary Clinton email story.
“Some of these were really, really bad and illegal,” he explained.
As Trump’s campaign tells it, newly released emails from Hillary Clinton’s right-hand woman Huma Abedin show a suspicious connection between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s statement department.
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CBS’s Nancy Cordes says one of the messages involves Clinton Foundation official Doug Band.
“Band is looking to put a billionaire foundation donor in contact with state officials, writing, ‘We need Gilbert Chagoury to speak to the substance person regarding Lebanon,'” Cordes reports. Abedin responds, ‘It’s Jeff Feltman, the ambassador. I’m sure he knows him. I’ll talk to Jeff.'”
Trump’s running mate Mike Pence says that’s evidence that officials in the State Department were doing favors for rich foreign donors who gave money to the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton’s people explain that the billionaire, Mr. Chagoury wasn’t looking for a favor, but actually wanted to share information about Lebanon with the State Department.
Nancy Cordes says there’s also another email involving Doug Band from the Clinton Foundation, written to Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
“Band reaches out in 2009 on behalf of a job seeker, writing that it is, ‘important to take care of (this person), whose name is redacted.’ Huma Abedin writes back, assuring Band that State Department personnel has been sending him options.”
But it turns out this unnamed job seeker was just a 20-something former Clinton staffer looking for work, not a rich donor looking for influence, and had nothing to do with the Clinton Foundation.
So that’s the latest email story. I apologize if it wasn’t as interesting as the Trump Second Amendment quote or the guy suction-cupping his way up the Trump tower, but we do what we can.
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