Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s national policy director, slammed Hillary Clinton on Thursday, accusing her of “calculating how much money she can make selling the office of the presidency for profit.”
According to a report from McClatchy, there is no record that Clinton or her chief of staff Cheryl Mills or deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin and others took the required ethics training course when Clinton was secretary of state. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: State Dept Can’t Find Evidence Hillary Was Trained To Handle Classified Documents)
Miller said, “Hillary Clinton and her aides reportedly skipped their ethics training. That would make sense since Hillary was planning a criminal enterprise trading government favors for cash.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Clinton Received Training On Classified Docs Just ONCE in Three Years At State)
“As she focused on personal enrichment, the Middle East went up in flames and ISIS exploded onto the globe. Now, all the people who’ve been paying off Hillary for years are funding her campaign. Mr. Trump has proposed new ethics reforms to restore honor to our government, while Hillary Clinton is calculating how much money she can make selling the office of the presidency for profit,” Miller concluded. (RELATED: Report: Hillary SKIPPED Special State Dept. Cybersecurity Briefing [VIDEO])
According to State Department records obtained via a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee, only three of the top nine aides to Clinton took the mandated ethics course for new employees.
There is no evidence that Clinton herself took the training. However, McClatchy notes that “the lack of records does not necessarily mean employees did not take the training, just that the department failed to keep track.”
Elizabeth Trudeau, State Department director of press relations, told McClatchy, “We would caution against drawing any conclusions simply from the absence of documentation provided in response to a FOIA request.”
Karen Hobert Flynn, president of the government watchdog group Common Cause, told McClatchy, “Given the nature of the Clinton Foundation and questions raised about the donors to the foundation one would think it would be a priority at the State Department.”
McClatchy makes sure to point out that government watchdog groups argue that “The failure of the Clinton State Department to keep accurate records indicates that it was not a priority.”