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Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the report of the special advocate Robert Mueller only constituted the beginning of a judgment on electoral interference. (April 23)
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WASHINGTON – The former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, has mocked the conclusions drawn by the special advocate Robert Mueller during an interview Wednesday night on MSNBC.

Addressing host Rachel Maddow, Clinton spoke of the infamous moment when Donald Trump, who was running against Clinton for the White House at the time, asked for foreign aid to acquire Clinton's private e-mails. , saying at a press conference in July 2016: "Russia, if you're Listening, I hope you can find the 30,000 missing emails."

While Trump told Mueller that the remarks were a joke, Russian military intelligence agents in less than five hours had "targeted Clinton's personal office for the first time" and "sent malicious links targeting 15 courier, "including one belonging to a Clinton assistant whose name has been expunged, according to Mueller's report.

Clinton has proposed a hypothesis to Maddow: a Democratic candidate in the 2020 election appears on her show and says: "China, if you listen, why do not you get Trump's tax returns?" I'm sure our media would reward you richly. "

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"Now, according to the Mueller report, it's not a conspiracy, but well into the open," Clinton said, adding that, in the hypothetical hypothesis, "in the hours that follow, the offices of the IRS are suddenly bombarded Incredibly sophisticated cyber-tools look for Trump's tax returns and then extract them and pass them on to whatever the new WikiLeaks is in, and they start to be disclosed and disclosed, which is not wrong. "

She sarcastically added that "if you let Russia get away with what she did and continues to do", why not "hold a big power contest and put the Chinese on the side of someone else?" One of them ".

"Just saying this shows how absurd the situation is," Clinton said.

In his written responses to Mueller's team, Trump said his request for help from Russia was a joke. Trump said that he made this statement "jokingly and sarcastically," adding that it should have been apparent to "any objective observer".

Trump is the first president of modern history to not have published his tax returns, citing an ongoing audit. But that did not stop the Democrats, who last month, asked for six years of his return to the IRS.

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Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal, D-Mass., Has invoked a rarely used law allowing a small select number of Congress members to consider individual income tax returns for legislative purposes. In his application, Neal cited as argument his reasoning legislative proposals and oversight related to federal tax legislation.

The Treasury Department, which houses the IRS, missed two deadlines set by Neal for delivering Trump's tax returns. Instead, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he wanted advice from the Department of Justice and that he would make a final decision on Monday.

Mnuchin, in letters to Neal, has expressed concern over the disclosure of Trump's tax returns and accused Democrats of attempting to circumvent the law in order to obtain the documents for purposes policies.

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