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State Dept. could be releasing Hillary Clinton’s emails before the election: Sec. Pompeo

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Friday interview with Fox News host Dana Perino that the State Department has former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails and plans to release them to the public.

“We got the emails, we’re going to get all this information out so that the American people can see it,” he told Perino on her Fox News program The Daily Briefing.

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Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State was a constant source of contention for her 2016 candidacy for president, haunting her campaign up through Election Day. Experts and critics have said that using a private email server to discuss official State Department business was a major national security threat.

Sec. Clinton, claiming that many of the emails were personal, instructed her team in 2014 to delete over 30,000 emails from the private server. Republicans have been eager to get their hands on these emails for many years now, claiming that there likely is proof of criminality on the part of Clinton while she served as secretary of state.

James Comey, who was the director of the FBI in 2016, reopened the FBI’s investigation into her emails after an investigation by the Inspector General into her emails pertaining to illegal activity by her campaign vice chair’s husband, disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner. Importantly, he announced this on October 28—just days before the 2016 election.

When asked by Perino if these will be released before the November 3 election, he said, “We’re doing it as fast as we can. I certainly think that there’ll be more to see before the election.”

With 25 days until the 2020 presidential election, this carries the potential to shake things up. All of this will depend on if the emails can be published before the election and on whether the emails incriminate anybody or tarnish someone’s image.

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RFK Jr. announces lifelong Democrat, advocate of left-leaning causes, CA native as running mate

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Tuesday that attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan will be his vice presidential running mate in the upcoming election. The Independent candidate announced his choice for the 38-year-old Oakland, California native by praising her insight into “how Big Tech uses AI to manipulate the public,” her athletic ability, and willingness to be a “partner” in a number of policy areas, including on securing the border.

Fox News writes that Shanahan is a philanthropist with a long history of donating to Democrat and left-leaning causes, including supporting President Biden in his 2020 election bid before switching to Kennedy when he launched his own run for the Democrat nomination last year.

She is the founder and president of Bia-Echo Foundation, a private firm that describes its mission as focused on “new frontiers in reproductive longevity & equality, criminal justice reform and a healthy & livable planet.”

Fox News reports Shanahan initially dropped her support for Kennedy after he decided to run as an independent, but later got behind him again by giving $4 million to the super PAC that boosted his candidacy with a John F. Kennedy-themed campaign ad that ran during the Super Bowl in February.

Shanahan also previously donated to Democrat presidential candidates Marianne Williamson and Pete Buttigieg during the 2020 presidential race, and threw more than $150,000 behind progressive Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s 2020 election bid.

Shanahan, a life-long Democrat, told the crowd that she was leaving the party.

“The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of compassion. It is supposed to be the party of free speech, and most importantly, the party of the middle class and the American dream,” Shanahan said.

“While I know many Democrats still abide by those values…I do believe they’ve lost their way in their leadership,” she continued.

And she urged “disillusioned” Democrats and Republicans to support Kennedy’s independent White House bid.

 

 

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