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Donna Brazile's book threw the Clintons under the bus. She says the Clintons, and Democrat Party, rigged the 2016 Democrat Party Primary. Understand, this is coming from a loyal Democrat.
President Trump, when asked about Brazile, responded that he believes the Justice Department should launch an investigation of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over their political activities in 2016, claiming the American public “deserves it.”
On Twitter, he called the joint fundraising agreement Clinton signed with the DNC in 2015 to attack Bernie Sanders (according to Brazile's new book) “the real story on Collusion.”
“The funding arrangement with [Clinton’s campaign] and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical,” Brazile wrote.
Trump claimed in a Thursday night tweet the DNC acted “illegally” in setting up the fundraising agreement.
“I’m really not involved with the Justice Department. I’d like to let it run itself, but honestly, they should be looking at the Democrats," Trump said at the White House. "A lot of people are disappointed in the Justice Department, including me.”
Brazile wrote that the 2015 agreement created an uneven playing field for Clinton, since it gave her team control of some fundraising and personnel decisions at the DNC during an open presidential primary.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are sticking to their attack Trump script, and special investigator Mueller's indictments led to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and top deputy Richard Gates pleading not guilty to a series of charges related to their alleged work for a pro-Russia party in Ukraine. Another campaign aide pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his talks with Russians. All of the allegations, however, are unassociated with the presidential campaign, occurring before Trump threw his hat in the ring for the 2016 Presidential Election.
Trump says he is confident he'll be proven innocent in the Russia election meddling investigation if Special Counsel Robert Mueller treats "everything fairly."
"Well I hope he’s treating everything fairly and if he is I’m going to be very happy because when you talk about innocent, I am truly not involved in any form of collusion with Russia," the president said on Sharyl Attkisson's Full Measure show in a wide-ranging interview to be aired Sunday across the Sinclair Broadcast Group's affiliates nationwide. "Believe me. The last thing I can think of to be involved in."
Trump also described how he hired Paul Manafort as his campaign chairman in 2016 at the recommendation of a friend.
"Well it was a friend of mine who was a businessman, very successful businessman and a good person. And you know Paul was not there very long," Trump explained.
He did not name the friend before he proceeded to describe how Manafort was forced to leave the campaign in August 2016.
"Well I think we found out something about him may be involved with or with certain nations and I don't even know exactly what it was in particular but there was a point at which we just felt Paul would be better off because we don't want to have any potential conflicts," he said.
Manafort was indicted in Mueller's Russia probe along with a campaign colleague earlier this week. He is accused of money laundering and other crimes in connection with his representation of pro-Russian figures in Ukraine from 2006 to 2014.
Trump also maintained that he is not under investigation in Mueller's probe.
"As far as I’m concerned I have not been told that we were under investigation. I'm not under investigation," he said.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday, telling him to "go back to the plantation" after he said did not recall hearing if members of the Trump campaign were in contact with the Russians.
"Sessions doesn't remember what he said, when he said it, & where he was when he said it. Don't blame him. Time to go back to the plantation," Waters tweeted.
Let me remind Waters about the memory of Hillary Clinton, who, when cornered, always seems to suddenly suffer from selective amnesia. . .
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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