Guess Who Bought Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server
Politico, arguably a left-of-center news outlet, did Democratic presidential nominee no favors Thursday morning with a new report about how the Clinton family went from “dead broke” to multi-millionaires.
The investigative report states:
Bill Clinton used a decades-old federal government program, originally created to keep former presidents out of the poorhouse, to subsidize his family’s foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife’s private email server, a Politico investigation has found.
Taxpayer cash was used to buy IT equipment—including servers—housed at the Clinton Foundation, and also to supplement the pay and benefits of several aides now at the center of the email and cash-for-access scandals dogging Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
That’s right, you paid for Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The Politico report, however, doesn’t specify if such use of the funds violated any federal laws. But it also creates new questions about the server, most importantly: Was it government property?
If the server is, in fact, government property, that means all of the emails on it would be open to public scrutiny. It could also mean that efforts to “wipe” the server—now known to have been accomplished using the BleachBit open-source software—constitute destruction of government property.
As a result, it’s more potential legal trouble for the Clinton family when Hillary’s presidential campaign can least afford it. Her opponent’s campaign pounced on the new development Thursday morning, as well.
“It is outrageous that the Clintons were forcing taxpayers to help pick up the tab for Hillary Clinton’s infamous homebrew email server, staff salaries, and to subsidize the Clinton Foundation at the same time they were making millions of dollars a year selling access,” Donald Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said. “The American people deserve to know whether Hillary Clinton thinks this conduct is appropriate and whether the Clinton Foundation will reimburse taxpayers for these lavish expenses at a time when we’re fast approaching $20 trillion in debt.”
