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Legal Watchdog Claims Trump Must Fulfill Pledge to Probe Clinton Scandals

© REUTERS / Carlos BarriaDemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during the third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate with Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump (not pictured) at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, October 19, 2016.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during the third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate with Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump (not pictured) at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, October 19, 2016. - Sputnik International
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President-elect Donald Trump will be betraying his promise to Americans to "drain the swamp" of government corruption if he ends the probes into the Hillary Clinton scandals, conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.

In this September 26, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shake hands during the presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. - Sputnik International
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Trump needs to commit his administration to a serious, independent investigation of the Clinton national security, email and pay-to-play scandals and focus on healing the broken US justice system, Fitton said.

"If Mr. Trump’s appointees continue the Obama administration’s politicized spiking of a criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton, it would be a betrayal of his promise to the American people to ‘drain the swamp’ of out-of-control corruption in Washington, DC," Fitton stated on Tuesday.

Fitton was issuing a response to reports earlier on Tuesday that Trump had told senior editors, executives and reporters of the New York Times that he believed Clinton had suffered enough, according to quotes attributed to him by Times reporters on Twitter who had attended the meeting.

"President-elect Trump should focus on healing the broken justice system, affirm the rule of law and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Clinton scandals," Fitton maintained.

The president-elect must affirm the rule of law and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Clinton scandals, Fitton concluded.

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