USA: Republicans are pressing to reopen the Clinton investigations

Republicans in Congress are pushing to reopen a series of investigations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched against Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, a few months before the 2016 election, won by Donald Trump. Nova News reports it. The investigations were described in detail in the report recently published by John Durham, the special adviser appointed by the Trump administration to launch a counter-investigation into the FBI's investigation into "Russiagate", the scandal relating to alleged Russian interference in the presidential elections of 2016. In the 306-page document, Durham accuses the agency of "serious failings in terms of analytical rigor" during the investigation, underlining a significant discrepancy in the approach taken towards Trump on the one hand, and Mr and Mrs Clinton on the other 'other. In particular, a reconstruction published today by the British newspaper "Daily Mail" refers to the statements made to the agency by a "confidential source" in 2014, according to which two foreign governments would have attempted to send "illegal donations" to the electoral campaign of Hillary Clinton, in order to strengthen her political influence in the United States in case of victory of the candidate.