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| Trump says US justice department part of 'deep state' and demands action against top Clinton aide Huma Abedin | Trump says US justice department part of 'deep state' and demands action against top Clinton aide Huma Abedin |
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| Donald Trump has termed his own Justice Department part of the ‘deep state’, as he called for it to take action against Hillary Clinton’s former top aide, Huma Abedin. | Donald Trump has termed his own Justice Department part of the ‘deep state’, as he called for it to take action against Hillary Clinton’s former top aide, Huma Abedin. |
| In one of a series of early morning tweets, Mr Trump claimed that Ms Abedin had been accused of disregarding basic protocols and put classified passwords into the hands of foreign agents. | In one of a series of early morning tweets, Mr Trump claimed that Ms Abedin had been accused of disregarding basic protocols and put classified passwords into the hands of foreign agents. |
| His comments appear to have been made after such allegations were made by the The Daily Caller, a conservative publication that is among Mr Trump regular sources of news. The website claims there Ms Abedin had forwarded “sensitive State Department emails, including passwords to government systems”, to her personal Yahoo email account before every single Yahoo account was hacked. | His comments appear to have been made after such allegations were made by the The Daily Caller, a conservative publication that is among Mr Trump regular sources of news. The website claims there Ms Abedin had forwarded “sensitive State Department emails, including passwords to government systems”, to her personal Yahoo email account before every single Yahoo account was hacked. |
| Ms Abedin, 41, who worked as a senior aide to Ms Clinton both at the State Department and ten during her election campaign, did not immediately respond to Mr Trump’s comment. The Department of Justice also did not respond. | |
| Last week, the State Department released a large number of Ms Abedin’s emails relating to her work while employed by the government, following a Freedom of Information request by the conservative legal watchdog Judicial Watch. | |
| Judicial Watch spokeswoman Jill Farrell told The Independent: “In this case, thousands of documents have been released by the State Department. They include documents include classified information being passed on unsecured networks - this was through the Clinton email server.” | |
| Ms Farrell claimed “too many people” had been given immunity by the FBI as it launched its probe of Ms Clinton’s use of a private email server - an issue that remains rallying cry for conservatives and supporters of Donald Trump, despite him defeating her in the 2016 election more than a year ago. | |
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