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June 16: Donald Trump jumped into the
crowded and rowdy Republican presidential field on Tuesday, but the business
magnate has astutely played both sides of the aisle for years, and has been
especially cozy — financially and personally — with Hillary Clinton.
Clinton, the Democratic front-runner and former New York senator who had some
say over policy that could have impacted Trump’s vast business dealings,
received donations from both him and son Donald Trump Jr. on separate occasions
in 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007, according to state and federal disclosure records.
Trump has also been generous with the Clinton Foundation, donating at least
$100,000, according to the non-profit.
July 17: Republican presidential candidate
and reality television star Donald Trump has been deeply critical of former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as he has embarked on his campaign, but it
wasn’t always so.
The real estate magnate has a long history of delivering admiring comments about
the woman he now calls the “worst Secretary of State in the history of the
United States,” and a “desperate” and “sad” candidate.
When Clinton last ran for office, Trump was torn between supporting her and
former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. ” They’re both terrific people, and I
hope they both get the nomination,” he told
CNN in 2007, adding that he thought Clinton would surround herself with good
people to negotiate a deal with Iran. A year later, Trump wondered publicly why
Clinton wasn’t chosen as President Obama’s running-mate.
http://time.com/3962799/donald-trump-hillary-clinton/
September 11:
Hillary's emails in 4 sentences. 1) "... I should have used two accounts —
one for personal, one for work-related emails," Clinton told ABC. ... "That was
a mistake. I'm sorry about that. I take responsibility." 2) [Hillary's] use of a
private email account was allowed and other secretaries of state have used them.
But it is unprecedented that any of them had used a private
server... the rules have since
changed since she left the State Department, and her arrangement would no longer
be allowed. 3) ... there is no evidence that she has sent or received any emails
that were marked classified at the time. More than 100 have been retroactively
classified. 4) [Did Hillary provide] all
of her work-related emails to the State Department ...
This is unknowable at this point. [Hillary] said the server was
wiped clean ... it has since been turned over to the Department of Justice, and
the FBI is investigating.
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/11/439456567/fact-check-hillary-clintons-email-defense-is-a-mixed-bag
October 30: Months before candidate Donald
Trump asked Russia to “find”
Hillary Clinton's missing private server emails — a statement the
campaign later called a joke — a Russian operative told a campaign aide "the
Russians had emails of Clinton," according to a plea agreement released Monday.
In the first guilty plea of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation,
George Papadopoulos admitted lying to the FBI about contact with Russian agents
that offered the campaign "thousands" of damaging emails about Clinton.
Papadopoulos claims he would eventually be told by a campaign supervisor to
travel to Russia to meet with government officials "if feasible," a trip that
never happened.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/357851-timeline-campaign-knew-russia-had-clinton-emails-months-before-trump
Undated: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump
... Clinton and Trump Responses to the REV UP Presidential Candidate
Questionnaire
Last night, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced one another in the last
official debate of the 2016 election. Now, it is up to the American people to
decide who will become our next president, including the 34.6 million people
with disabilities that are eligible to vote. When we include our families
alongside voters with disabilities, that number rises to 62.7 million eligible
voters, nearly one fourth of the total electorate (Rutgers
University).
July 5:
But, Comey said, the FBI did not find any indication that those emails had been
intentionally concealed from investigators."
Our assessment is that, like many
email users, Secretary Clinton periodically deleted emails or emails were purged
from the system when devices were changed," Comey said. "Because she was not
using a government account — or even a commercial account like Gmail — there was
no archiving at all of her emails, so it is not surprising that we discovered
emails that were not on Secretary Clinton's system in 2014, when she produced
the 30,000 e-mails to the State Department." ... the FBI did not find any
evidence of intentional misconduct by Clinton's lawyers.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/05/484785586/fbi-recommends-no-charges-for-hillary-clinton-in-email-server-case
July 5: “Although there
is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of
classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would
bring such a case,” Comey said in a news conference.
September 17: After more than five years of
touting "birther" conspiracy theories, Donald Trump on Friday finally conceded a
simple truth: "President Barack Obama was born in the United States."
He did not apologize or speak to his own role in spreading the falsehood, which
many people see as an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of America's first
black president. Instead, Trump offered a curt admission tainted by yet another
demonstrably false charge: that Hillary Clinton and her 2008 primary campaign
"started" the racially charged smear.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/17/politics/hillary-clinton-birther-conspiracy/index.html
October 9: Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton
deleted 33,000 emails after getting a subpoena
Clinton and her campaign don’t dispute that she deleted these 33,000 emails.
They argue that these were personal in nature, rather than work-related, and
therefore were not necessary to turn over.
October 16:
At a Pennsylvania rally last week, Trump said that excerpts of speeches
Clinton gave to Wall Street bankers show the Democrat wants to gut entitlement
programs.
"The speeches also show that Crooked Hillary supports cutting Medicare and
Social Security benefits, one more example of how Hillary Clinton's public
position is a lie. She wants to knock the hell out of your Social Security.
She wants to knock the hell out of your Medicare and Medicaid. And I am going
to save them," he said.
October 25: It takes a particularly
complicated type of merger to unite Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Wall
Street in their skepticism ... Donald Trump,
addressing a crowd in Gettysburg, said his administration would not approve
[the merger deal between AT&T and Time Warner] because “it’s too much
concentration of power in the hands of too few.”
[See more about AT&T deal at November 10, 2017]
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/att-time-warner-boo-hiss/505367/
November 4: Why Donald Trump draws crowds,
Hillary Clinton doesn't
January
11:Ukrainian efforts to
sabotage Trump backfire
Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after
quietly working to boost Clinton.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National
Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an
effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia,
according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
January 26: Hillary Clinton
decided not to fire a senior adviser on her 2008 presidential campaign who had
been accused of sexual harassment, against the recommendation of her campaign
manager, two sources who worked on the 2008 campaign tell CNN.
A female campaign staffer had accused Clinton's faith adviser,
Burns Strider, of harassment that included inappropriate touching, kissing her
forehead and sending her suggestive emails, the sources said. The woman shared
an office with Strider.
February 13: [Senator Al] Franken tells CNN’s “State of the Union” that the concern arises “in the way
that we all have this suspicion” that “he lies a lot.”
February 23: ... it appears Hillary
Clinton has embraced at least one new mission: delivering the slow burn on
Twitter ... Clinton has been using Twitter to prod Republicans and cheer on her
political team from the sidelines.
... this week, Clinton offered
her most pointed criticism yet for Trump and Republican members of Congress.
May 3: FBI Director James Comey told
Senators he had not choice but to reveal new developments in the bureau's
investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails just days before the presidential
election, as he faced only bad options.
'Honestly as between really bad and catastrophic, I said to my team, 'We gotta
walk into the world of really bad," Comey said.
May 3: The election may be over, with Donald
Trump's presidency more than 100 days old, but Hillary Clinton isn't ready to
let go.
In a brief but frank interview with foreign affairs reporter Christiane Amanpour
at the Women for Women International event in New York City on Tuesday, Mrs
Clinton said that she has conducted an "excruciating analysis" of her failed
presidential campaign as part of a book she is writing.
What has she learned? While admitting that she made mistakes and that her
campaign had "challenges", "problems" and "shortfalls", she pointed the finger
at two men - FBI Director James Comey and Russian President Vladimir Putin - as
the proximate cause of her defeat.
"I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey's letter on
October 28 and Russian Wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were
inclined to vote for me but got scared off," she said. "The evidence for that
intervening event is, I think, compelling."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39788317
June 1: Former Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton argued Wednesday that Russian meddling in the 2016
election in large part cost her the White House, and said she was "leaning"
toward believing that President Trump's campaign did, indeed, collude with the
Russians. ... that the Russians "could not have known how best to weaponize"
damaging information about her campaign and fake news stories perpetrated on
social media unless they had been "guided" by Americans.
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/530941011/clinton-says-she-was-right-about-vast-russia-conspiracy-investigations-ongoing
June 1:
Comey has testified that it makes him "mildly nauseous to think that we
might have had some impact on the election." But he defended his handling of
both investigations, saying that not disclosing that they were reopening the
investigation just before the election would have jeopardized the FBI's
independence and that the Russia investigation, which began last summer, was
treated "consistently under the same principles" as the Clinton email probe.
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/530941011/clinton-says-she-was-right-about-vast-russia-conspiracy-investigations-ongoing
July 5: Why no criminal charges? Clinton
has said that she never used her personal email to send information that was
marked classified at the time, although some of her emails had been
retroactively classified.
Comey says that's not true. Of 30,000 emails Clinton turned over to the State
Department in 2014, FBI investigators found 110 emails containing information
that was classified at the timethe email was sent. Eight of those were
top secret, the highest level of classification. A small number of those emails
were explicitly marked as classified, Comey said. None of that classified
content should ever have been sent on any kind of unclassified system ... He
further pointed out that Clinton's personal email setup involved no full-time
security staff — like she would have benefited from if she had been on a
government system, or even just on Google's Gmail service.
July 5: FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday
announced the agency is not recommending the Justice Department bring charges
against Hillary Clinton, while also denouncing the former secretary of state and
her aides for the way they handled classified information through private email
servers.
"Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her
colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified
information, there is information that they were extremely careless in their
handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," Comey told reporters
in Washington, D.C., noting that the probe has found that the former secretary
of state used several different email servers and numerous devices during her
time in office.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/fbi-recommends-no-charges-against-clinton-in-email-probe-225102
July 14: A Republican Party operative who
said he tried to obtain Hillary Clintons emails from Russian hackers committed
suicide days after speaking to The Wall Street Journal, records acquired by
the Chicago Tribune show. Peter W. Smith, an 81-year-old GOP donor from Chicago,
was found dead in a Rochester, Minnesota hotel room on May 14. The Tribune
obtained a state death record stating Smith committed suicide in the hotel on
the date.
http://smcmarketingtips.com/blog/category/news/page/39/
July 22: In his Saturday tweets, Trump also
launched into criticism of the Russia probe, asking why Sessions and Mueller
weren't looking into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information in
emails while secretary of state and accusing her of having ties to Russia.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/22/politics/trump-tweets-pardon-powers/index.html
July 30: Berlin court demands far-right
party correct claim that German funds went to Clinton campaign
A far-right political party in Germany must issue a correction after asserting
German funds were indirectly funneled to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 2016
election campaign, according to a Berlin court order.
August 9: [After the State Department found
a total of] 348 Benghazi-related messages or documents that were sent to or from
Clinton in a period of nearly five months after the attack.... the conservative
watchdog group Judicial Watch argued that the search wasn't good enough because
State never tried to search its own systems for relevant messages in the
official email accounts of Clinton's top aides.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/08/09/judge-orders-searches-for-clinton-benghazi-emails-241470
August 9:Aug 10, 2017 - The
2016 election may be long over but the
investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails
related to the 2012 Benghazi attack has been
given fresh life—by a federal judge
appointed by President Barack Obama.
http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-benghazi-email-investigation-649438
August 9: Nine months after the presidential
election was decided, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to try
again to find emails Hillary Clinton wrote about the Benghazi attack.
August 9:
Adding a new wrinkle to litigation over the 2012 U.S. consulate
attack in Benghazi, Libya, a federal judge put a spotlight Wednesday on emails
sent by three aides to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“This matter is a far cry from a typical FOIA case,” the
ruling by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta says, abbreviating Freedom of
Information Act. “Secretary Clinton used a private email server, located in her
home, to transmit and receive work-related communications during her tenure as
secretary of state.”
https://www.courthousenews.com/state-department-ordered-expand-benghazi-email-hunt/
September 15: Hillary Clinton slammed
President Donald Trump’s foreign policy Friday, saying his national security
team is in “disarray” and that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hasn’t reached
out to her for advice since taking over as the nation’s top diplomat.
September 22: President Donald Trump told an
Alabama crowd Friday night that if "Crooked Hillary" Clinton had won the 2016
election, "you would not have a Second Amendment."
"You'd be handing in your rifles," Trump said. "You'd be turning over your
rifles."
October 9: Russians'
lawyer says new documents show Trump Tower meeting not about dirt on Clinton ... The new information stands in
contrast with the initial email pitching the meeting to Trump Jr., which
promised damaging information on Clinton.
[It was] suggested that [publicist
Rob] Goldstone
"probably exaggerated and maybe willfully contorted the facts for the purpose of
making the meeting interesting to the Trump people." [when in fact there may
have been nothing available from the Russians about harming the Clinton
campaign].
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/09/politics/russia-trump-tower-meeting-new-documents/index.html
October 9:"The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and
in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official
documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with
Russia and would be very useful to your father,"
Goldstone wrote to Trump Jr. "This is obviously very high level and
sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr.
Trump..."
October 9: As part
of her explanation [of her involvement], [Russian lawyer Natalia]
Veselnitskaya's talking points accuse the "Ziff brothers" -- three billionaire
brothers who had run a hedge fund company together -- of violating Russian law,
as well as their connections to Democratic politics.
October 16:
Hillary Clinton, when asked about the [sexual
assault/harrassment Harvey] Weinstein scandal, took a shot at Trump,
saying there is a lot of work to be done in the sexual assault arena if a man
with several sexual assault claims against him can win the White House.
October 19: CIA director distorts intelligence community’s findings on Russian
interference
“The intelligence community’s assessment is that the Russian meddling that took
place did not affect the outcome of the election,” [Mike] Pompeo said at a
security conference in Washington.
His comment suggested — falsely — that a report released by U.S. intelligence
agencies in January had ruled out any impact that could be attributed to a
covert Russian interference campaign that involved leaks of tens of thousands of
stolen emails, the flooding of social media sites with false claims and the
purchase of ads on Facebook.
October 24: Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC,
retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research ... After that,
Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British
intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community,
according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the company in April 2016
on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
October 24: One person close to the matter said the campaign and the DNC were not
informed by the law firm of Fusion GPS’s role.
At no point, the people said, did the Clinton campaign or the DNC direct
Steele’s activities. They described him as a Fusion GPS subcontractor.
After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering
intelligence about Trump and Russia, but the bureau pulled out of the
arrangement after Steele was publicly identified in news reports.
October 24: Over objections
from Democrats, the Republican leader of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep.
Devin Nunes (Calif.), subpoenaed
Fusion GPS’s bank records to try to identify the mystery [Republican] client.
October 27: The [Washington] Free Beacon [a
conservative press] said in a statement published on its website Friday that
since its inception in February 2012, it "has retained third party firms to
conduct research on many individuals and institutions of interest to us and our
readers."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/washington-free-beacon-fusion-gps/index.html
October 27: In that capacity, during the
2016 election cycle we retained Fusion GPS to provide research on multiple
candidates in the Republican presidential primary, just as we retained other
firms to assist in our research into Hillary Clinton. All of the work that
Fusion GPS provided to the Free Beacon was based on public sources, and
none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the
Steele dossier. The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to
the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with,
knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele.
Nor did we have any knowledge of the relationship between Fusion GPS and the
Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, and the Clinton campaign.
http://freebeacon.com/uncategorized/fusion-gps-washington-free-beacon/
October 27: We consider it our duty to
report verifiable information, not falsehoods or slander, and we believe that
commitment has been well demonstrated by the quality of the journalism that we
produce. The First Amendment guarantees our right to engage in news-gathering as
we see fit, and we intend to continue doing just that as we have since the day
we launched this project.
http://freebeacon.com/uncategorized/fusion-gps-washington-free-beacon/
October 27: Two sources said the President's
push for transparency is proper protocol. But the White House risks the
appearance of political intrusion on traditionally independent parts of the
government, particularly the Justice Department, which represents the State
Department in the litigation over the release of the Clinton-era emails.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/trump-state-department-clinton-emails/index.html
October 29: This week we saw Donald Trump,
Fox News and even GOP members of Congress, in a seemingly coordinated strategy,
ratchet up
allegations that Hillary Clinton had "colluded" with Russia.
October 29: Despite President
Donald Trump's claim that it is "commonly agreed" that his campaign did not
collude with Russia during last year's election, Senate intelligence committee
member Angus King said there's still plenty of investigating left to do.
November 12: ... [Trump] has so far shown
not the slightest inclination to do anything to make the system less rigged. To
do that, Trump would have to make the tax system more progressive, reduce the
power of corporate lobbying, resist pressure for stronger intellectual property
rights and stop the wealthy from salting their money away in tax havens. None of
this is on his agenda, which explains why America is a country where competition
is thwarted, excess profits are rife and the tech entrepreneurs of Silicon
Valley are the new robber barons.
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/economics-blog/2017/nov/12/second-gilded-age-trump-no-sign-of-taking-on-rigged-system-concentrated-wealth-robber-barons-superrich
November 15: President Trump ... asserted in
June 2016 that "Hillary Clinton's State Department approved the transfer of 20%
of America's uranium holdings to Russia, while nine investors in the deal
funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation."
"That statement," [Fox News anchor Shepard] Smith said, "is inaccurate in a
number of ways."
Smith delivered a powerful rebuttal to those claims on Tuesday. He explained
that the deal required approval from an inter-agency committee known as "CFIUS,"
made up of the heads of the nine cabinet-level departments.
"The nine department heads all approved the sale of Uranium One," Smith said.
"It was unanimous, not a Hillary Clinton approval."
November 18: Trump's Hillary Clinton
obsession
... President Trump just can't quit Hillary Clinton. Rarely a few days
pass without the president tweeting about the woman he beat.
December 12: Trump tweeted: "So General
Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton,
on that now famous FBI holiday "interrogation" with no swearing in and no
recording, lies many times...and nothing happens to her? Rigged system, or just
a double standard?"
December 28: Former president Barack Obama
is still America's most admired man, according to Gallup's Most Admired Man and
Woman poll
published Wednesday.
February 14: In a
little noticed message included in a congressional budget submission,
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote that President
Donald Trump’s budget request would “essentially keep the OIG’s budget flat
in FY 2018 and FY 2019 even as budgets for other Department law enforcement
components such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are recommended for
increases.”
February 16: Prosecutors provided a
remarkably detailed picture of how Russians used social media, fake rallies and
secretive operatives in the U.S. to create “political intensity” by backing
radical groups, opposition social movements and disaffected voters. The outreach
from the Russians included direct contact with over 100 Americans.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/u-s-charges-13-russians-3-companies-for-hacking-election
February 16: The Russian operations on
social media were meant to communicate derogatory information about Hillary
Clinton and other candidates, including Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. And they were
supposed to support Sanders and Trump.
Hillary Clinton faulted
President Donald Trump for continuing to "ignore and surrender" to Russian
meddling in a tweet on Wednesday, asking whether the Republican who defeated her
in the 2016 election will "protect the country."
The direct barb at Trump comes after US Cyber Command chief Adm. Mike Rogers
told lawmakers on Tuesday that Trump has not granted him the authority to
disrupt Russian election hacking operations where they originate.
March 1:
Andrew McCabe, Ex-Deputy Director of F.B.I., Will Be Faulted for Leaks
A Justice Department review is expected to criticize the former F.B.I.
deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, for authorizing the disclosure of information
about a continuing investigation to journalists, according to four people
familiar with the inquiry.
Such a damning report would give President Trump new ammunition to criticize Mr.
McCabe, who is at the center of Mr. Trump’s theory that “deep state” actors
inside the F.B.I. have been working to sabotage his presidency. But Mr. McCabe’s
disclosures to the news media do not fit neatly into that assumption: They
contributed to
a negative article about Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration’s
Justice Department — not Mr. Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/justice-dept-andrew-mccabe.html
March 3: President Donald Trump bemoaned a
decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential
election, decrying a "rigged system" that still doesn't have the "right people"
in place to fix it, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors in Florida
on Saturday.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html
March 6: Roger Stone: I never discussed
WikiLeaks or Clinton emails with Trump
Roger Stone on Tuesday pushed back at the notion that it would be
treasonous if President
Trump's campaign coordinated with WikiLeaks to release emails from
rival
Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
“I’ve been accused of being a dirty trickster. There’s one trick that’s not in
my bag: That’s treason,” Stone, a longtime GOP operative and informal adviser to
Trump, said on MSNBC's “Meet The Press Daily.”
“For it to be a treasonous act, [Julian] Assange would have to provably be a
Russian asset, and WikiLeaks would have to be a Russian front. And I don’t think
that’s the case,” he continued, referring to the founder of the
anti-secrecy group.
Asked by host Chuck Todd if he thinks it’s possible WikiLeaks and the Trump
campaign coordinated the release of the Clinton campaign’s emails, Stone said he
has “no knowledge that happened.”
March 8: Senior adviser
at HUD spread conspiracy theory that Clinton campaign chairman was Satanist
John Gibbs is a former conservative commentator who initially joined the HUD as
the director for Strong Cities and Strong Communities, a program aimed at
spurring economic development at the local level.
In August of 2017, Gibbs, a political appointee, transitioned to the role of
senior adviser, working in the office of the assistant secretary for community
planning and development. In his current role, Gibbs is tasked with developing
and implementing efforts aimed at increasing economic development programs for
low-income people.
On Twitter, Gibbs made multiple references to a conspiracy theory started by
far-right bloggers claiming Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta took part in
a Satanic ritual. Tweets from Gibbs, archived on the
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, show him promoting the conspiracy four
times between October 31 and November 5 of 2016, using the hashtag #SpiritCooking.
The hashtag originated from an email of Podesta's released by WikiLeaks
March 9: Trump pardons ex-Navy sailor who
cited Clinton in his defense
Saucier, a petty officer, was sentenced in August 2016 to 12 months in prison
after taking photos inside the engine room on the USS Alexandria, a nuclear
attack submarine. The pictures taken of the vessel's propulsion system were
classified "confidential," the lowest level of classification.
He admitted to taking the photographs on his personal cellphone, but argued for
leniency — citing 110 classified emails found on Clinton's personal e-mail
server.
"He doesn't think that he did anything wrong because he thinks he's different,"
said prosecutor Jacquelyn Kasulis during the sentencing. "He thinks he's better
than everybody else and the rules don't apply to him."
April 11: A pornographic video that falsely
claimed to show Hillary Clinton engaged in a sex act has been traced back to an
account that Reddit
acknowledged on Tuesday is linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency.
June 14: The DOJ inspector general’s report:
Hillary Clinton has good reason to complain
The Justice Department’s inspector general’s
report released Thursday makes clear that former FBI director James B. Comey
blew it in his handling of Hillary Clinton’s emails. He treated her unfairly,
intruding into the election in ways that worked to Donald Trump’s benefit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/
July 13: Mueller’s New Indictment of the
Russian Hackers Is Full of Clues About Connections to Trump World
On Friday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a
series of indictments
against 12 Russian intelligence operatives for hacking various Democratic Party
and state election infrastructure organs in an effort to interfere in the 2016
election. As Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley pointed out, one
seemingly noteworthy effort came when the Russians attempted to hack Hillary
Clinton’s “personal office” on the same day Donald Trump publicly stated he
hoped Russia would hack Clinton’s emails.
July 30: German court orders far-right party
to retract claim that government funds went to Clinton campaign
A Berlin court ordered Germany’s far-right party to retract a false accusation
that the country's environment ministry gave money to
Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign.
Georg Pazderski, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AFD) party,
was ordered to scrub its website of the accusation and issue a correction
stating that the German ministry "paid no money whatsoever to support the
election campaign of Hillary Clinton,” Deutsche
Welle news reported Monday.
Pazderski and his party claimed that millions that Germany’s Federal Environment
Ministry donated to the Clinton Foundation’s climate initiatives in Africa were
really funneled into Clinton’s campaign.
August 30: President Donald Trump attacked
his own Justice Department and FBI leadership and implied Hillary Clinton could
face criminal charges during a campaign rally Thursday night in Indiana.
"Our Justice Department and our FBI have to start doing their jobs and doing it
right and doing it now, because people are angry. People are angry," Trump said
at a rally in Evansville, where he was campaigning for Republican Senate nominee
Mike Braun.
Trump also suggested he could take a heavier role in the Justice Department --
comments that came hours after he told Bloomberg that Attorney General Jeff
Sessions would remain in his job until after November's midterm elections.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/30/politics/trump-evansville-rally/index.html
November 20: President Trump told the White
House counsel in the spring that he wanted to order the Justice Department to
prosecute two of his political adversaries: his 2016 challenger, Hillary
Clinton, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, according to two people
familiar with the conversation.
The lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, rebuffed the president, saying that he had no
authority to order a prosecution. Mr. McGahn said that while he could request an
investigation, that too could prompt accusations of abuse of power. To
underscore his point, Mr. McGahn had White House lawyers write a memo for Mr.
Trump warning that if he asked law enforcement to investigate his rivals, he
could face a range of consequences, including possible impeachment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/us/politics/president-trump-justice-department.html
