WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is entertaining the idea of appointing a second special counsel to investigate a host of Republican concerns – including alleged wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation and the controversial sale of a uranium company to Russia – and has directed senior federal prosecutors to explore at least some of the […]
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The very real cases against Hillary Clinton
How do they do it? I am not the first to compare the Clintons to Harry Houdini, the great magician and escape artist, but Bill and Hillary make him look like a rank amateur. No law seems to touch them. No regulation seems to control them. No prosecutor wants to take the risk of holding […]
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Hillary Clinton campaign, DNC provided funding that led to Trump dossier
In this March 21, 2016, file photo, attorney Marc Elias, one of several lawyers who appeared in the in the case of Wittman v. Personhuballah, stands on the plaza of the Supreme Court in Washington. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund a political research firm that produced a dossier of […]
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Trump Jr. confirms he met with Russian who said she had info on Clinton
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s eldest son changed his account over the weekend of a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, saying Sunday that the woman told him she had information about Democrat Hillary Clinton. A statement from Donald Trump Jr. one day earlier made no mention of Clinton. […]
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FBI chief says he had to tell Congress of Clinton email news
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire from Democrats, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday it would have been “catastrophic” to keep Congress in the dark about developments in the Hillary Clinton email investigation that emerged close to Election Day. Comey, in the most impassioned and public defense of how he handled the case, also said it […]
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LePage backed anti-Hillary group with his own money
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage dipped into his own pocket this fall to help defeat Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. LePage forked over $100 every two weeks to the Stop Hillary Political Action Committee from mid-October until mid-November. The $300 he gave marked the first time the governor has chipped in to an independent political […]
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Hillary Clinton wins popular vote by nearly 2.9 million
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton received nearly 2.9 million more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, giving her the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate. Certified results in all 50 states and the District of Columbia show Clinton winning nearly 65,844,610 million votes — 48 percent — to Trump’s 62,979,636 million votes — 46 […]
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Bernie Sanders almost gets an electoral vote in Maine
UPDATE: AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Democratic presidential elector created an uproar by voting for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders before backing down and supporting Hillary Clinton, overshadowing Maine’s first time ever splitting its electoral votes for president. Maine made history by giving electoral votes to both major party candidates — one for Republican President-elect Donald […]
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Hillary Clinton, political martyr of the year
Documentaries, plays and grand operas will be written about what was done to Hillary Clinton in the election of 2016. Some normal mistakes were mixed in with her many accomplishments, but there was nothing normal about her treatment by political foes and many of the respectable media alike. The gang-up on Clinton amounted to political […]
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Aide says Donald Trump not likely to pursue prosecution of Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump “doesn’t wish to pursue” further investigations into Hillary Clinton’s email practices, a top adviser said Tuesday, a turnaround from all the campaign rallies when Trump roused supporters to chants of “lock her up.” “I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find […]