Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Hillary Clinton undoubtedly ran a “criminal scheme” at the State Department, hours after it was reported Friday that her former chief of staff received an immunity deal during the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s email practices.
According to the Associated Press, Clinton’s top aide at the agency, Cheryl Mills, was granted an immunity agreement by the Justice Department during the FBI’s criminal probe into her boss. Two additional individuals with ties to Clinton — Bryan Pagliano and Paul Combetta — had also received such deals over the course of the investigation.
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“Revelations that three additional individuals, including Cheryl Mills, were granted immunity from prosecution in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal shows this was without a doubt a criminal scheme,” said Jason Miller, a senior communications adviser to Trump.
Miller described the private email server Clinton kept during her tenure as secretary of state as “an end run around government transparency laws designed to hide corruption between the Clinton Foundation and her State Department.”
“What has become abundantly clear is that the Obama administration is protecting Hillary Clinton from accountability at all costs because she will keep the rigged system in Washington in place,” he alleged.
Should Clinton defeat Trump in November, his campaign demanded that Democratic presidential hopeful promise not to allow Mills or others who served her at the State Department to “serve in any capacity in her administration.”
