Biden DOJ Formally Shut Down Clinton Foundation “Investigation” in August 2021 – FBI Destroyed All Evidence!

The investigation into the Clinton Foundation, which spanned almost the entirety of President Donald J. Trump's administration, was finally closed by the Justice Department without any charges being filed shortly before Trump's departure from office. Recent documents and interviews with former officials from the department reveal that the investigation continued even when FBI agents and prosecutors knew it was a futile endeavor. This previously unreported conclusion centered on the Clinton Foundation's interactions with foreign donors during Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama.

During his campaign, Trump famously promised to "lock her up," referring to Hillary Clinton. Throughout his four-year term, he consistently pressured the FBI and the Justice Department to target his political rivals. In response to accusations from the president's allies about their alleged involvement in a deep-state conspiracy against him, FBI officials insisted that the department publicly acknowledge that there was no case against Clinton.

Obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the closing documents obtained by The New York Times marked the end of an investigation that senior prosecutors had doubted from the beginning. Nonetheless, it became a rallying cry for Republicans who believed that the FBI would eventually uncover evidence of corruption, thereby damaging Clinton's political prospects.

The Clinton Foundation came under attack by Republicans in 2015 after the release of the book "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich" by conservative author Peter Schweizer. The book explored the donations made by foreign entities to the foundation. Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute, an organization where Stephen K. Bannon, Trump's former chief strategist, was a founder and executive chairman.

Craig Minassian, a spokesman for the Clinton Foundation, asserted that the organization had faced baseless politically motivated allegations. Republicans latched onto the accusations in Schweizer's book, accusing Clinton of engaging in a quid pro quo by supporting the interests of foundation donors. Specifically, critics focused on large donations received by the foundation in connection with its support for the sale of Uranium One, a Canadian company with mining stakes in the United States, to a Russian nuclear agency. This deal was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States in 2010 when Clinton held a voting seat on the panel as Secretary of State.

The FBI in Washington initiated a preliminary investigation in 2016 solely based on unverified hearsay information from Schweizer's book, according to the final report by John H. Durham, the special counsel appointed during the Trump administration to investigate the bureau's inquiries into possible connections between Trump's campaign and Russia. The FBI offices in New York and Little Rock, Arkansas, also opened investigations based on information provided by confidential sources.

In his inquiry, Durham compared the handling of the Clinton Foundation investigation with the FBI's treatment of the Russia investigation. As part of his investigation, Durham interviewed Hillary Clinton in May 2022, during which she answered all questions without limitations, according to her lawyer David E. Kendall.

At the time, the Justice Department had little confidence in the foundation investigations, causing frustration among FBI agents. Raymond N. Hulser, a prosecutor in charge of the public integrity section, stated that the Washington case based on Schweizer's book lacked grounds.

Moreover, some prosecutors even considered the book discredited. The investigation created tensions within the FBI, as agents felt that the Justice Department hindered their work. These internal conflicts eventually became public, resulting in significant repercussions.

Andrew G. McCabe, the former Deputy Director of the FBI, faced accusations of leaking information about the case to a Wall Street Journal reporter and subsequently lying about it to the Justice Department's inspector general. This episode ultimately led to his dismissal in 2018 and an unsuccessful attempt by the department to prosecute him.

In August 2016, the three ongoing foundation cases were consolidated under the supervision of agents in New York. Although agents were authorized to seek subpoenas from the U.S. attorneys' offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn, prosecutors declined to issue them, causing the investigation to stagnate.

The case was eventually transferred to Little Rock, and in 2017, after receiving a request for assistance from the local prosecutors, the Deputy Attorney General's office affirmed that the Justice Department would support the case. Subsequently, prosecutors obtained a subpoena for the charity in early 2018, and the FBI assigned personnel to examine donor records. They also interviewed the former chief financial officer of the foundation.

Career prosecutors in Little Rock ultimately closed the case, notifying the local FBI office through two letters in January 2021. However, due to the toxic atmosphere surrounding the Trump administration's accusations of FBI bias, the top agent in Little Rock emphasized that career prosecutors, not FBI officials, made the decision.

In August 2021, the FBI received a declination memo from prosecutors, officially closing the matter. As a result, all evidence obtained during the investigation was either returned or destroyed, according to the FBI. The New York Times reported this development, highlighting that Biden's Justice Department had effectively shut down the investigation into the Clinton Foundation.