1. 15,000 emails set for October
A conservative watchdog group released a new tranche of emails from Hillary Clinton’s time at the state department and said the FBI had located 15,000 additional documents Clinton didn’t turn over.
2. Favor requests for donors
In some emails published by Judicial Watch, a Clinton foundation employee asked top Clinton aide Huma Abedin to arrange favors for foundation donors – a meeting with Clinton for the crown prince of Bahrain, for example.
Judge orders Clinton to answer questions
‘Huma, I need your help now’
This does indeed go without saying https://t.co/CZau8mjsvf pic.twitter.com/BbpopepWSo
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) August 22, 2016
3. Clinton denies impropriety
Hillary Clinton never took action as Secretary of State because of donations to the Clinton Foundation…. Hillary Clinton provided the state department with all the work-related emails she had in her possession in 2014.
– From separate Clinton campaign statements
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5. ‘I’m not flip-flopping’
A day after his new campaign manager said the “deportation force” Trump has proposed to remove undocumented migrants was “to be determined”, Trump insisted: “I’m not flip-flopping.”
Trump to skip immigration talk
'Really fair but firm'
We have to be very firm. We have to be very, very strong when people come in illegally… And we’re working with a lot of people in the Hispanic community to try and come up with an answer. … No. I’m not flip-flopping. We want to come up with a really fair but firm answer.
– Donald Trump
6. Clinton’s $80m ad buy
The Clinton campaign reserved $80m in air time in eight competitive states for the fall, bringing their total spending on TV ads to $150m, versus $5m worth reserved so far by the Trump campaign.
... and another thing:
“Why are you laughing?” My god, this video of Pence on Fox News is incredible. https://t.co/iYGF8VUKkV pic.twitter.com/B1q6LxaiVf
— Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) August 22, 2016
