Donald Trump sent supporters a fundraising plea Wednesday hinged on a promise to indict Hillary Clinton.
“Breaking: Hillary to be indicted in November,” read the email’s subject line, sent from the Trump campaign to Ben Carson’s email list.
“Every Election Day, politicians stand trial before the people,” said the email, which urged people to donate based on a desire to indict and convict Clinton for unspecified charges. “The voters are the jury. Their ballots are the verdict. And, on November 8th, the American people will finally have the chance to do what the authorities have been too afraid to do over these last 2 decades: INDICT HILLARY CLINTON AND FIND HER GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES.”
The email features link buttons that say “Give $5 to stop Hillary” with increasing suggested donations, and later a link to “indict Hillary Clinton and find her guilty of all charges” drives supporters to a donation page for Trump.
The email follows two almost identical appeals that went out the day before to different political fundraising lists, with one change: the buttons in Tuesday’s plea said “Chip in $5 to indict” and successive amounts. The subject line of one of those Tuesday emails was also “Urgent: Find Hillary guilty on all charges.”
All are signed by Trump and feature the disclaimer that they were paid for by the Trump campaign.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state is the focus of an investigation by the FBI. The feds are investigating whether classified information was improperly handled through the private email use.
The FBI and its investigations are designed to be independent of the presidential administration, and FBI Director James Comey has insisted that politics will not influence any decision on whether to bring charges in the probe. The White House has also insisted President Barack Obama, despite endorsing Clinton, is committed to the investigation’s independence.
In April, Trump told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly he would look at indicting Clinton if he took office in November.
“I would only do something 100% fair. You’d certainly have to look at it very fairly,” he said, according to a transcription by The Hill.
