Emails detail State Dept. effort under Clinton to aid Walmart

By Sean Higgins

Published September 8, 2016 4:01am ET

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Emails detail State Dept. effort under Clinton to aid Walmart — The agency helped Walmart's 2011 effortsto buy a South African retailer despite local unions' opposition. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) | Themba Hadebe

Newly released emails from Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state detail how the State Department assisted Walmart’s efforts in 2011 to buy a South African retail chain called Massmart despite the opposition of local unions.

The emails show that U.S. diplomats talked up Walmart to skeptical South African government officials, even playing some hardball on the company’s behalf.

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