2016 News Story: " Why Trump isn’t pursuing charges against Hillary Clinton "
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Photo credit: Getty Images | " Tom Fitton, president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, said it would be a 'betrayal of his promise to the American people' for Trump to abandon the Clinton case. 'Donald Trump must commit his administration to a serious, independent investigation of the very serious Clinton national security, email, and pay-to-play scandals,' he said, calling on the president-elect to 'focus on healing the broken justice system.' ” The photo and the quotation were both posted along with the article linked to below.
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President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday (November 22, 2016) he won’t pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton because it would divide the nation — and she’s already 'suffered greatly.'
'I don’t want to hurt the Clintons — I really don’t,' Trump said in an interview with the New York Times.
“She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.”
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Trump’s conciliatory gesture to Clinton is a sharp contrast to a key plank of his winning campaign message.
At the second presidential debate in October, he told his rival, 'If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception.'
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Full story in the New York Post
2016 News Story: Steve Mnuchin Becomes National Finance Chairman of Trump Campaign
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Steve Mnuchin was the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 2017-2021, and this photo is from the Wiki article about him. The article linked to below also says that "It’s no secret ... that Trump has also donated to (Hillary) Clinton’s past political efforts."
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After spending 17 years at Goldman Sachs, Mnuchin became founder, president and CEO of OneWest Bank Group LLC from 2009 to 2015, a bank backed by (George) Soros and several other hedge fund managers and billionaires. The group sold the bank to CIT Group for $3.4 billion in a merger that was completed last August.
During his tenure at Goldman Sachs and beyond, Mnuchin contributed more than $7,000 to (Hillary) Clinton’s New York Senate bids in 2000 and 2006 as well as her run for the Democratic nomination in 2008, according to federal contribution data on OpenSecrets. Mnuchin also donated $1,000 to Republican candidate Steve Forbes in June 1999, along with several other presidential and congressional candidates in both parties. Mnuchin contributed $2,000 to Barack Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign and $2,300 for his presidential bid in 2007.
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Full story at Politico
2020 News Story: " Report: Trump disparaged US war dead as ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’ "
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"President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, in Latrobe, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)" The photo and its caption were posted within the article linked to below.
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DELRAY BEACH, FLa. — A new report details multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who have been captured or killed, including referring to the American war dead at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France in 2018 as 'losers' and 'suckers.'
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The allegations were first reported in The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events and a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trump’s comments confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments.
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Full story at the Military Times