After Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced he is open to the idea of appointing a special council to to look into the Clinton Foundations involvement with the Uranium-One deal, twice failed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton panicked.
In an interview with notoriously left-winged site Mother Jones, Clinton announced President Donald Trump’s administration is doing this as a distraction.
In what seems like an overreaction to the mere mention of an investigation, Clinton described it as the “politicization of the Justice Department,” and goes as far as accusing the administration of acting like a dictatorship!
“And if they send a signal that we’re going to be like some dictatorships, some authoritarian regime where political opponents are going to be unfairly, fraudulently investigated – that rips at the fabric of the contract we have that we can trust our justice system,” she said.
She ironically referred to the proposed investigation as “such an abuse of power” when that is exactly what she would be investigated for!
There has been speculation that the approval of the Uranium One deal when Clinton was Secretary of State financially benefited Clinton Foundation donors.
The agreement was reached while Clinton led the State Department and some investors in the company had relationships with former President Bill Clinton and donated large sums to the Clinton Foundation.
House Republicans in recent weeks have launched their own probes into the Obama administration and Clinton’s emails.
Some lawmakers have specifically said they want to know more about whether President Barack Obama’s Justice Department had been investigating the purchase of American uranium mines by a Russian-backed company in 2010.
Her panicked reaction is just further proof that they might have financially benefited from the deal. If she had nothing to worry about, why not allow the investigation and clear the air?
The Associated Press contributed to this article.