Exclusive: Trump loyalist Matthew Whitaker was counseling the White House on investigating Clinton

Whitaker advised the president on launching a new special counsel while working as chief of staff for Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Nov 9, 2018

The fig leaf comes off
To placate the president’s demand that a special counsel be named to investigate Hillary Clinton’s role in the uranium deal, Rosenstein and other Justice Department officials came up with a similar compromise: Instead of naming a special counsel, Sessions agreed to appoint John Huber, the US attorney for Utah, to review the department’s earlier investigation. If he found evidence of any serious wrongdoing, Huber could then recommend the opening of a formal criminal investigation or even the appointment of a special counsel.

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