{"id":68988,"date":"2016-11-18T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68988"},"modified":"2016-11-18T06:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:42:22","slug":"leslie-rutledge-arkansas-ag-hillarys-worst-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68988","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas AG, Hillary\u2019s worst nightmare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The blog for the Arkansas Times is reporting<\/a> that our attorney general, Leslie Rutledge, is in New York meeting with Trump transition planners. Rutledge, a diminutive fireball conservative elected two years ago, is quoted:<\/p>\n

“My interest is in helping the Trump administration,” Rutledge told reporters as she arrived for meetings at Trump Tower in New York. “Whether that’s continuing on as the attorney general of Arkansas or (working) in the administration, then my ears are open.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s the first of those two options, \u201cstaying on in Arkansas\u201d that sets my antennae tingling for the simple reason that Rutledge is one of two state attorneys general in the country who have undisputed standing to investigate the Clinton foundation. The other state is New York, but their thoroughly politicized, Democrat attorney general would never lift a hand against the Clinton\u2019s no matter how outrageous their corruption. Both AG\u2019s have standing by virtue of the physical location of foundation offices within their borders.<\/p>\n

Rutledge, however, could do a great service for both her own considerable political ambitions and the Trump Administration by accepting the Trump\u2019s justice department hand off the hot potato investigation and prosecution of the Clinton Foundation corruption. Trump could quietly lend Rutledge\u2019s own limited investigatory resources the far greater capabilities of federal agencies to build a lock-tight racketeering case against the Clintons and then quietly fade from the scene before Rutledge (soon to become the world\u2019s most famous state attorney general and a household name) announces the indictments.<\/p>\n

Think about it for a moment: Trump could mollify those demanding his promised Clinton investigation by saying that it was ongoing and as president and chief judicial officer he could not comment further all while having his justice department and the FBI quietly continue their own investigations into Clinton\u2019s obvious security violations. But, and it\u2019s a big but, by receding into the background, Trump could fade the heat from angry Democrats that he is persecuting his political opponents. And if Rutledge brought in some quick convictions or plea deals from some of the lower hanging fruit on the foundation staff, all eyes would be on her from that point on until she could either indict or, in a highly unlikely move, clear the Clintons. <\/p>\n

If Rutledge were to gain convictions against the Clinton\u2019s, most of the bloodlust on the right would likely be sated with even minimal state sentences. Moreover, Trump would have fulfilled his vow, through a state surrogate, to prosecute Crooked Hillary, and AG Rutledge would be world famous, likely the federal attorney general in a second Trump term, then Arkansas governor, senator, U.S. Supreme Court, who knows where that kind of fame, the woman who nailed the Clinton\u2019s, could take her. And wouldn\u2019t it be so fitting that The Clinton\u2019s should get their comeuppance back here in Arkansas, where their decades-long career of corruption began?<\/p>\n

Anyone think perhaps Donald\u2019s thinking the same way I am? <\/p>\n

Crossposted at American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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