Donald Trump wants Under Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy to resign, following allegations that he tried to influence the FBI on the classification of some of Hillary Clinton‘s emails.
{mosads}At a rally in Green Bay, Wis., on Monday night, the GOP presidential nominee condemned Kennedy for allegedly pressuring the FBI to reduce the classification of an email about the arrests in the Benghazi attacks.
According to the documents released Monday, two unnamed officials said there was some talk about alleged quid pro quo arrangement under which the FBI would declassify the document and in return get expanded authority in Iraq. Both departments are pushing back on the allegations.
“The FBI documents show that Under-Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy made the request for altering classification as part of a ‘quid pro quo,’” Trump said on Monday. “This is felony corruption. Under-Secretary Kennedy needs to resign.”
At Monday’s rally, Trump continued to rail against Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of State and harped on the fact she deleted 33,000 emails.
“This is one of the great miscarriages of justice in the history of this country,” Trump said.
“This is worse than Watergate, and what does she get out of it, she gets to run for presidency of the United States,” Trump continued. “We’re going to put an end to that on Nov. 8.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz(R-Utah) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) also called Monday for the Obama administration to fire Kennedy, as did Sen. Marco Rubio.