Sen. John Cornyn blasted the White House Monday for its seeming interference in the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
“President Obama’s press secretary, his chief spokesman Josh Earnest, was asked about the status of the investigation,” the Texas Republican said in a speech on the Senate floor. “He said, and I quote … an indictment ‘does not seem to be the direction in which it is trending.'”
“Either the White House has information that they should not have about the status of this ongoing criminal investigation by the FBI, or they’re sending a signal to the FBI and the Department of Justice that they want this to go away,” Cornyn said. “That, Mr. President, is completely inappropriate. It is outrageous. And it’s got to stop.”
Cornyn reiterated his call for a special counsel to investigate the Clinton emails, a plea he first made in September.
Since then, dozens of lawmakers have pushed Attorney General Loretta Lynch to name an independent prosecutor in the Clinton case.
Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., questioned the Justice Department Monday on whether officials considered that Lynch had been appointed by President Bill Clinton a conflict of interest in her oversight of the probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails when she was secretary of state.
Critics have raised concerns that the Obama administration’s Justice Department could be unable to handle the Clinton investigation in an unbiased manner.
