Donald Trump said Wednesday morning that his legal appointments to the Justice Department and the Supreme Court “would look very seriously” at Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.
The exchange between him and ABC’s David Muir on Good Morning America:
Muir: I do want to get your reaction, Mr. Trump, to something Hillary Clinton said just this week. She said, quote, “Ask yourself, what kind of justice would President Trump appoint? Or for that matter, attorney general?” citing your belief that Muslims should be banned from entering this country because of their faith. She said, “As scary as it might seem, you have to ask yourself” who would he appoint. How do you react? Trump: Well I would probably appoint people that would look very seriously at her email disaster, because it’s a criminal activity, and I would appoint people that would look very seriously at that, to start off with. What she’s getting away with is absolutely murder. You talk about a case — now that’s a real case. Now nothing seems to be happening, but you can also poll people on that and you see what happens to that, because that is a real case. And if she’s able to get away with that, you can get away with anything.
As the Supreme Court has no role in the government’s investigation of Clinton or conducting criminal investigations of any kind, THE WEEKLY STANDARD emailed the Trump campaign for comment. We will note a response if one is received.
Trump has caused a stir for a separate interpretation of the judiciary, defending his sister, a federal appeals court judge, “for signing a certain bill.”
On the Clinton front, The Washington Postreported that dozens of FBI agents are now tracking down leads in the ongoing saga:
Since Clinton’s private email account was brought to light a year ago in a New York Times report — followed by an Associated Press report revealing the existence of the server — the matter has been a source of nonstop national news. Private groups have filed lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act. Investigations were begun by congressional committees and inspector general’s offices in the State Department and the U.S. Intelligence Community, which referred the case to the FBI in July for “counterintelligence purposes” after determining that the server carried classified material. The FBI is now trying to determine whether a crime was committed in the handling of that classified material. It is also examining whether the server was hacked. Dozens of FBI personnel have been deployed to run down leads, according to a lawmaker briefed by FBI Director James B. Comey. The FBI has accelerated the investigation because officials want to avoid the possibility of announcing any action too close to the election.
