The GOP Just Can’t Quit the Clintons

The following article by Susan Milligan was posted on the U.S. News and World Report December 29, 2017:

Democrats have broken up with the Clintons, but Republicans won’t let go.

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For Democrats, the breakup was a long time coming, a political romance with the Clintons that started with a heady, upstart 1992 campaign, was tested during Bill Clinton’s impeachment, and finally ended when the couple’s home state senator said the former president should have resigned over sexual misconduct allegations.

But President Donald Trump and the GOP just can’t seem to quit the out-of-power Clintons. Trump tweets frequently (and accusingly) about the woman he beat out for the White House in 2016, while Capitol Hill Republicans are mounting their own Clinton investigations and demanding that the Department of Justice do the same. In October, House and Senate Republicans announced formal inquiries into two matters involving the former first couple: an Obama-era uranium deal involving Russia that accusers charge was tied to support for the Clinton Foundation, and a separate investigation of how the FBI handled then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s private email server. Continue reading “The GOP Just Can’t Quit the Clintons”