President Trump suggests Huma Abedin be jailed !
President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that Hillary Clinton's longtime aide, Huma
Abedin, should be jailed after the State Department's release last week of classified emails found
on the laptop of Abedin's estranged husband, Anthony Weiner.
"Crooked Hillary Clinton's top aid [sic], Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding
basic security protocols.
She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents," the president wrote
on Twitter.
"Remember sailors [sic] pictures on submarine?
Jail!
Deep State Justice Dept must finally act?
Also on Comey & others."
The emails to which Trump referred, released last week in response to a Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch, were the same batch uncovered
during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election.
The FBI's disclosure to Congress that it was examining the emails in relation to its
closed investigation of Clinton's use of a personal email server during her tenure
as secretary of state offered Trump a powerful line of attack in the 2016 campaign's closing
days, and Clinton has blamed her loss in large part on the FBI's resurfacing of the email
scandal.
A spokesperson for Clinton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The FBI's review of the emails discovered on Weiner's computer revealed nothing to
change the bureau's assessment that Clinton's home-brew email system did not rise to the
level of criminal charges, but their release has nonetheless prompted fresh calls from
Trump and his allies for continued probing of Clinton and her team.
The president has long suggested that Clinton was given preferential treatment because of
her status as a prominent political figure.
Tuesday's tweet was not the first time that Trump has compared Clinton's case to that
of Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier, who pleaded guilty to mishandling classified
information after using a cellphone to take pictures of the classified engine room aboard
the nuclear submarine he served on and then destroying a laptop, memory card and camera
after learning he was under investigation.
Trump has also previously lashed out at former FBI Director James Comey, whom the president
fired last year over the bureau's handling of an investigation into Russian meddling
in the 2016 campaign and the possibility that the Trump campaign colluded in those efforts.
The president's suggestion that the Department of Justice probe his political enemies breaks
with a longstanding tradition that the department operate free from political influence.
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