President Donald Trump opened the news cycle Friday morning with a Twitter fusillade. The president primarily focused on allegations by former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile that Hillary Clinton and the DNC “rigged” the nomination in her favor with a financing deal in August 2015.
Trump suggested the matter may warrant FBI attention.
“Everybody is asking why the Justice Department (and FBI) isn’t looking into all of the dishonesty going on with Crooked Hillary & the Dems,” Trump tweeted. “New Donna B book says she paid for and stole the Dem Primary.
“What about the deleted E-mails, Uranium, Podesta, the Server, plus, plus, people are angry,” he continued. “At some point the Justice Department, and the FBI, must do what is right and proper. The American public deserves it!”
Everybody is asking why the Justice Department (and FBI) isn’t looking into all of the dishonesty going on with Crooked Hillary & the Dems..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
…New Donna B book says she paid for and stole the Dem Primary. What about the deleted E-mails, Uranium, Podesta, the Server, plus, plus…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
….People are angry. At some point the Justice Department, and the FBI, must do what is right and proper. The American public deserves it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
The president even got Pocahontas — his perennial nickname for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — into the act.
“The real story on Collusion is in Donna B’s new book. Crooked Hillary bought the DNC & then stole the Democratic Primary from Crazy Bernie!” he said.
“Pocahontas just stated that the Democrats, lead by the legendary Crooked Hillary Clinton, rigged the Primaries! Lets go FBI & Justice Dept.”
The real story on Collusion is in Donna B’s new book. Crooked Hillary bought the DNC & then stole the Democratic Primary from Crazy Bernie!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
Pocahontas just stated that the Democrats, lead by the legendary Crooked Hillary Clinton, rigged the Primaries! Lets go FBI & Justice Dept.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
In an excerpt from her upcoming book published on Politico on Thursday, Brazile described a fundraising agreement that was made in August 2015 — long before the first primaries were held — in which the Hillary Victory Fund and Hillary for America would help pay off the DNC’s outstanding debt. In exchange, the Clinton campaign would oversee the “party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised.”
According to Brazile, a bankrupt DNC allowed itself to be totally controlled by the Clinton campaign in exchange for funding, and formalized the agreement in writing.
And while news of the deal was reported on at the time, the depth and details of the arrangement had not been widely understood.
Still, Brazile herself wrote, that no laws appear to have been broken that would warrant an FBI investigation. “This was not a criminal act,” she wrote, “but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.