Republican nominee Donald Trump hammered on Kadzik’s ties to Podesta in a campaign appearance Wednesday in Miami, saying that the assistant attorney general “was feeding information about the investigation into the Clinton campaign.”
“These are the people that want to run our country, folks,” Trump told his rally.
If nothing else, the correspondence sheds light on the deep personal relationships that are sometimes the backstory to events in Washington and on the campaign trail.
Kadzik is in charge of legislative affairs for the Justice Department, and has handled inquiries from lawmakers in the past few days about FBI Director James Comey’s disclosure to Congress that new emails had surfaced from Clinton’s private server that required new FBI attention.
In an email to Podesta on May 19, 2015, Kadzik noted that the House Judiciary Committee was holding a hearing that day and a Justice Department official would testify.
“Likely to get questions on State Department emails,” Kadzik wrote. “Another filing in the (Freedom of Information) case went in last night or will go in this am that indicates it will be awhile (2016) before the State Department posts the emails.”
At the time, the FBI was investigating Clinton for the use of a private server at her New York residence while conducting State Department business.
Podesta forwarded Kadzik’s email to six fellow members of the Clinton campaign team.
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