Trump's legal troubles pile up despite release of IG report
Trump's legal troubles grew deeper on Thursday, even as his supporters took a measure of vindication from the release of a watchdog report critical of former FBI Director James Comey.
The report from the Department of Justice’s inspector general (IG), Michael Horowitz, accused Comey of insubordinate behavior during the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of State.
But Horowitz found no evidence that “improper considerations, including political bias” had affected any decisions made as part of that investigation.
For Trump, any political benefits to be gleaned from the highly anticipated report were diluted by a decision announced hours earlier in New York, where state Attorney General Barbara Underwood (D) filed a lawsuit against the president’s charitable group, the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
Underwood alleged that her office has uncovered “a pattern of persistent illegal conduct, occurring over more than a decade, that includes extensive unlawful political coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions to benefit Mr. Trump’s personal and business interests, and violations of basic legal obligations for non-profit foundations.”
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