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Trump zeroes in on Abedin in latest Clinton attack | TheHill

posted onJanuary 3, 2018
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Article snippet: MORE and her close aide Huma Abedin on Tuesday, tweeting that Abedin didn’t follow security protocols and put “classified passwords” in the hands of foreign agents. Trump appeared to be referencing a story in The Daily Caller reporting that Abedin had forwarded State Department passwords to her personal Yahoo email account and that was likely compromised in subsequent breaches reported by the email provider. Taking to Twitter on Tuesday morning, Trump wrote: “Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid (sic) Huma Abedin has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others.” It's a fight Trump wants to have. Republicans have been eager to relitigate the controversy as part of an effort to distract from and undermine the special counsel investigation into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia. The Daily Caller report hinges on government emails made public as a result of litigation the conservative group Judicial Watch brought against the State Department in 2015. The headline highlights a Aug. 2009 email released by State in September that appears to show Abedin, who served as vice chair on Clinton’s presidential campaign, forwarding passwords to her government laptop to her personal Yahoo account. To be sure, the FBI said in documents related to the Clinton email probe that Abedin “r... Link to the full article to read more

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