During a speech on Oct. 25, Donald Trump said, “The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife.”
Our ruling
Trump said, “The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife.”
Trump is correct that hefty donations were given from a Clinton ally to a candidate whose husband was an FBI official.
But the timeline doesn’t add up, nor do Trump’s allegations stand up to independent scrutiny.
At the time of the contribution, the candidate’s husband was not directly involved in the FBI probe of Clinton’s email server, according to the FBI. The bureau says that by the time he had some oversight role in the Clinton investigation, the election involving his wife had been over for three months.
Meanwhile, the decision not to charge Clinton was a recommendation made by the director of the FBI.
Trump’s statement contains a small element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a completely different impression. We rate it Mostly False.
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