The increased focus on investigating Hillary Clinton is a smart strategy in the next months, Republicans say. Clinton doesn’t hold public office, but the Republicans consider her as the person who can reunite the Republican Party.
Doug Heye, GOP strategist and a critic of President Donald Trump, says that he keeps hearing how people in the party are frustrated over the investigations into the alleged Russian meddling in last year’s election and the alleged connection between Trump campaign and the Russians.
“The thing I hear over and over again from Republicans is that they’re tired of investigating Trump, and ‘Why isn’t Hillary and Loretta Lynch being investigated more?’ That is part of the cycle of talk radio speaking to voters and voters going back to their respective members of Congress and echoing that message, ” said Heye.
Heye is not the only Republican who is not a friend of Trump and thinks like this. Strategist Susan De Percio agrees with him.
“When it comes to the president, he must always have an enemy to punch at,” she said. According to her, that “is actually a pretty safe strategy.”
Last week House Republicans announced separate investigations into Clinton. Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees would like to know how the FBI handled last year’s probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was a secretary of State.
They demand more details about FBI’s decision to declare its investigation into Clinton while quietly investigating Trump’s campaign. The panels also want to know why the Bureau decided to notify Congress of the Clinton probe. Meanwhile, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Intelligence Committee and the House Oversight committee have launched probes into the sale Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, The Hill reports. Democrats are not surprised by the attacks.
“The Clintons have been a target of the right-wing movement for the last 25 years, and nothing will change that,” says Hakeem Jeffries, head of the Democrats’ communications arm.
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