Hillary Clinton brushed off reports that President Trump wanted to open an investigation into her while special counsel Robert Mueller was investigating him.
In an MSNBC interview Wednesday, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said that the president and others are using talk of investigating her as a means of diverting attention from Mueller’s report.
“I’m living rent-free inside of Donald Trump’s brain and it’s not a very nice place to be, I can tell you that,” she said, responding to a question about how Mueller’s team wrote that Trump met with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in October 2017 and asked him to look into investigating Clinton.
Since the redacted version of Mueller’s 448-page report was released, there have been calls from top Republicans, such as Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to begin investigating Clinton and others.
An FBI investigation into Clinton’s use of an unauthorized email server while secretary of state ended in 2016. More than 30,000 emails were deleted from the server, with 5,000 ultimately recovered. Clinton had said she “never received nor sent any material that was marked classified,” but the FBI found more than 100 emails that did contain classified information. Despite that, Clinton claimed Wednesday that she did nothing wrong and said that Republicans are being overzealous in their pursuit to defend Trump and attack her.
“I don’t know what they’re talking about. I’ve been investigated repeatedly by the other side. And much to their dismay, but to my, you know, satisfaction, it’s been for naught,” Clinton said Wednesday. “I guess it is one of their tools to fire up their hardcore base. When in doubt, go after me.”
Attempts to re-open investigations into her show that she’s “living rent free inside of Donald Trump’s brain,” @HillaryClinton says. “It’s not a very nice place to be, I can tell you that.” pic.twitter.com/BZ2GKLcnBx
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 2, 2019
Since the Mueller report was released, Trump has been a vocal critic about how the investigation into him began. He said last week that Clinton “destroyed the lives of people” working on his campaign.
“This was a coup. This was an attempted overthrow of the United States government,” Trump said. “This was an overthrow. It’s a disgraceful thing. I think it’s far bigger than Watergate. I think it’s possibly the biggest scandal in political history in this country. Maybe beyond political.”
