{"id":18138,"date":"2016-11-24T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18138"},"modified":"2016-11-24T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T00:01:00","slug":"trump-gets-ahead-of-himself-over-clinton-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18138","title":{"rendered":"Trump gets ahead of himself over Clinton inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/prosecutor-800x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18141\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/prosecutor-800x300-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"prosecutor-800x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/prosecutor-800x300-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/prosecutor-800x300-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/prosecutor-800x300.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump perhaps thought he was being magnanimous in declaring he wouldn&#8217;t seek a special prosecutor to examine whether Hillary Rodham Clinton broke any laws while she served as secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>Except for one thing &#8230; or so I understand.<\/p>\n<p>The president-elect has no actual authority to make such a ruling.<\/p>\n<p>That process starts and stops with the Justice Department and the FBI. Moreover, I am\u00a0pretty sure the feds have determined already that Clinton didn&#8217;t commit any crimes while she used a personal e-mail server.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI actually has made that declaration <em>twice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>FBI Director James Comey said in July that &#8220;no reasonable prosecutor&#8221; would bring charges against Clinton. Eleven days before the election, Comey then said he was examining some newly\u00a0discovered e-mails to see if they contained any new information. Nine days after that,\u00a0Comey said his initial conclusion stood.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that didn&#8217;t stop the future president-elect from convicting Clinton of crimes she didn&#8217;t commit. He vowed to pick a special prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Now he says he won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not his call to make.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump perhaps thought he was being magnanimous in declaring he wouldn&#8217;t seek a special prosecutor to examine whether Hillary Rodham Clinton broke any laws while she served as secretary of state. Except for one thing &#8230; or so I understand. The president-elect has no actual authority to make such a ruling. That process &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump gets ahead of himself over Clinton inquiry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6559,1574,1693,2139,2617],"class_list":["post-18138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-emails","tag-fbi","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-justice-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18142,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138\/revisions\/18142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}