>
Article snippet: WASHINGTON — President Trump complained on Thursday about the unfairness of the Russia investigation, wondering on Twitter why Hillary Clinton’s connections to Russia are not being similarly scrutinized. Twitter users quickly responded, with many of them tweeting a version of the same thing: Because you’re the president. Moments later, Mr. Trump continued to rant about his former rival for the presidency, saying — wrongly — that Mrs. Clinton had “destroyed phones w/ hammer, ‘bleached’ emails, & had husband meet w/AG.” Those accusations were apparently references to stories that emerged during the campaign. An aide to Mrs. Clinton (not Mrs. Clinton herself) told the F.B.I. that he had disposed of Mrs. Clinton’s old cellphones by “breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer.” An employee of the company that ran Mrs. Clinton’s private email server used a program called “BleachBit” to delete files; the F.B.I. concluded that Mrs. Clinton was unaware of the deletions. It was Bill Clinton, Mrs. Clinton’s husband, who had a conversation with Loretta Lynch, who was serving as attorney general, on Ms. Lynch’s plane, leading her to recuse herself in the email case involving Mrs. Clinton. The complaints about Mrs. Clinton came after a series of morning tweets in which Mr. Trump mocked federal investigators, saying they made up a “phony collusion with the Russians story” amid new reports that whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct justice in the case. “They made up a... Link to the full article to read more