Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump’s Republican opponents are licking their chops as the Clinton Presidential Library prepares to release nearly 500 documents on the billionaire.
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The decision to release the files was triggered by a Freedom of Information Act request, the National Archives, which manages the presidential records, said in a statement.
President Obama and former President Bill Clinton, or representatives from their offices, have 60 days to review documents connected with the FOIA request. If executive privilege is not invoked or a request for an extension not filed by April 11, then the documents will be released at the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Bill Clinton is in the awkward position of reviewing documents related to the man who has politically bludgeoned his wife for weeks.
“You look at whether it’s Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones or many of them – that certainly will be fair game,” Trump told NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie Dec. 29, WND reported.
“The Clinton presidential records proposed for opening consist of email concerning birthday notes sent from President Clinton to Mr. Trump. Email also includes references to his campaign for president in 1999,” the nation’s record keeper said Jan. 14, Politico reported Wednesday. “Also present is a printed database entry concerning Trump’s invitations to White House events, a photograph of President Clinton with Donald Trump at Trump Towers in New York, an autographed copy of Mr. Trump’s book ‘The Art of the Deal,’ and briefing materials for press events that include media questions about Mr. Trump’s possible run for the presidency in 2000.”
Many of the documents released will be innocuous, but others – like 1999 notes on a possible presidential run – may be of use to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. A quick release would be favored by the Republican, who is in a tight race with Trump with Iowa caucus-goers.
Cruz’s campaign has taken to questioning Trump’s conservative credentials in recent days. Just before former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin endorsed Trump on Tuesday, Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler painted the Republican front-runner as a stealth Democrat.
“I think it [would] be a blow to Sarah Palin, because Sarah Palin has been a champion for the conservative cause, and if she was going to endorse Donald Trump, sadly, she would be endorsing someone who’s held progressive views all their life on the sanctity of life, on marriage, on partial-birth abortion,” Tyler said on CNN’s “New Day.”
Cruz made a similar case while speaking to reporters in Fort Mill, South Carolina, Jan. 16.
Donald’s record does not match what he says as a candidate,” Cruz said. “I recognize what Donald says on the campaign trail today is fairly conservative, but voters are discerning. … It’s a fair inference that he supports [Democrats’] policies.”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas
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