Trump: Special prosecutor must investigate Clinton ‘immediately’

Published August 22, 2016 11:41pm ET



Donald Trump demanded the Justice Department appoint a special prosecutor to go after Hillary Clinton for actions related to her email scandal and “pay-to-play” State Department, the Republican nominee told attendees at an Akron, Ohio, rally Monday evening.

“The Justice Department is required to appoint an independent special prosecutor because it has proven itself to be, really, sadly, a political arm of the White House. Nobody has ever seen anything like this before,” said Trump, who took the stage nearly an hour before he was scheduled to speak. “The amounts involved, the favors done and the significant number of times it was done require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor immediately, immediately, immediately.”

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