Dana Milbank: House conservatives demand an investigation -- of Hillary Clinton
Source: Washington Post
House conservatives demand an investigation of Hillary Clinton
By Dana Milbank
Columnist
May 22 at 5:44 PM
Robert S. Mueller IIIs investigation has won indictments against President Trumps former campaign chairman and 16 others and has secured guilty pleas from five people, including Trumps former national security adviser and two campaign advisers.
This can mean only one thing: It is time to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails.
Federal agents raided the properties of Trumps personal attorney, who was paid by corporations seeking to influence Trump and who was reimbursed by Trump for paying hush money to a porn actress.
As a natural consequence of this, it is imperative to probe the dealings of the Clinton Foundation.
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This, at any rate, is the peculiar view expressed by a group of House conservatives Tuesday as they introduced a 12-page resolution demanding that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate various allegations against Clinton, the vanquished Democratic presidential nominee. They also want this new special prosecutor to look into the circumstances that started the Russia probe, though here, too, they blame Clinton, and to probe the conduct of Mueller and top officials at the Justice Department and FBI, who, as these lawmakers see it, are all hopelessly biased against Trump.
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