Thursday, January 4, 2018

Trump targets Clinton aide Huma Abedin

Huma Abedin has always been at Hillary Clinton's side since Clinton's was in the U.S. Senate.

DONALD TRUMP says Hillary Clinton's closest aide, Huma Abedin, should be punished and possibly jailed for her handling of certain emails while she was working in the State Departent.

"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. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others," he wrote.




"Calling for the imprisonment of political rivals is a clear attempt by President Trump to further politicize the Department of Justice," said Robert McCaw, Government Affairs Director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations. 


"Every American who values the constitutional guarantee of due process should be outraged by the president's statements," he said.
RELATED: Who is Huma Abedin?
Abedin has been with Hillary Clinton since her days in the U.S. Senate and arguably the closest advisor over the last 20 years. She  has an Indian father, Syed Zainul Abedin, and a Pakistani mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin. Both parents held doctorates from the University of Pennsylvania.

The emails to which Trump referred were released last week in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative group Judicial Watch.

The emails are the same ones uncovered during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election. Former FBI director James Comey'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. Clinton has blamed her loss in large part on the FBI’s resurfacing of the email scandal.

According to Comey, Abedin would send them to her husband so he could print them out as "a matter of convenience."

Comey later said days before the 2016 election that the FBI and couldn't prove there was any criminal intent, which is required in order to classify something as a criminal act in this situation with Abedin.

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