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President Trump sought to turn around another day of bad news from revelations of a newly impaneled grand jury, to leaked phone conversations with world leaders by demanding that investigators probing the Russian election meddling scandal instead target Hillary Clinton.

What the prosecutors should be looking at are Hillary Clintons 33,000 deleted emails, Trump said to huge cheers and chants of Lock her up! in West Virginia last night.

And they should be looking at the paid Russian speeches ... and let them look at the uranium she sold that is now in the hands of very angry Russians.

Trump held a campaign-style rally in this red state where he beat Clinton by more than 40 points, and whose governor, Democrat Jim Justice, announced prior to the speech that he was switching parties.

Trump tried to convince his supporters that Democrats are only pushing the Russia scandal to rob him of his election victory.

They cant beat us at the voting booths, so theyre trying to cheat you out of the future ... that you want, Trump said. We didnt win because of Russia. We won because of you.

Have you seen any Russians in West Virginia or Ohio or Pennsylvania? Are there any Russians here tonight? the president said.

Trump may need all the political support he can get.

Special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election in a sign the probe is widening and intensifying, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The grand jury began its work in recent weeks, according to the newspaper.

Reuters reported that grand jury subpoenas have been issued regarding the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that included Donald Trump Jr., the presidents son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, and ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Meanwhile, CNN, citing people familiar with the investigation, reported federal investigators working for Mueller have seized on Trump and his associates financial ties to Russia as one of the most fertile avenues in their probe.

All three stories about Muellers investigation broke within hours of one another, suggesting the former FBI chief may have several leakers on his staff.

Trump has already railed against Muellers team, pointing out their history of political contributions to Democrats and to Hillary Clinton.

A lawyer for Trump said he has no reason to believe the president himself is under federal investigation, and Ty Cobb, special counsel to the president, said the White House favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions today is expected to unveil new efforts by the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute intelligence leaks a move that cant come soon enough for a White House that seems to be frequently blindsided by press reports of confidential material.

The Washington Post yesterday published transcripts of conversations Trump had with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The private phone conversations, which took place days after Trump took office, revealed his frustrations with both world leaders over the influx of migrants to the U.S. With Nieto, Trump pleaded with him to stop telling the media that Mexico wont pay for the wall across the southern U.S. border, while insisting his campaign promise was the least important thing we are talking about.

With Turnbull, Trump fumed about an Obama administration agreement to take in 1,250 refugees detained off the coast of Australia.

Herald wire services contributed to this report.

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The president has revived campaign demands that Hillary Clinton be investigated, and some Republican legislators are joining in. Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Urban Zen Foundation hide caption

The president has revived campaign demands that Hillary Clinton be investigated, and some Republican legislators are joining in.

As Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller investigates alleged Russian ties to the Trump presidential campaign, the White House and some Republicans in Congress are calling for a second investigation.

The proposed target is a retired woman living in a small town in New York's Hudson Valley: Hillary Clinton.

Washington University law professor Kathleen Clark, who focuses on legal and governmental ethics, says these calls for an investigation of Clinton long after her political defeat fall far outside American political norms.

Traditionally, losing candidates are left alone after the election.

With this effort to pursue Clinton, "I'd say that the norms are under significant pressure," Clark said.

The demands to investigate go back to the heat of the 2016 race, when GOP candidate Donald Trump routinely referred to his Democratic rival as "crooked Hillary."

On the campaign trail, he made a prediction: "She's likely to be under investigation for criminality for a very, very long time to come."

During his campaign events, crowds chanted, "Lock her up!" The idea was that Clinton may have violated some laws related to her use of a private email server while she was U.S. secretary of state. (Just before Election Day last year, the FBI reaffirmed its decision not to pursue charges against Clinton over the email server.)

After Trump won, he told The New York Times that he didn't want to hurt the Clintons.

But as the weeks and months went by, more and more questions were raised about the Trump campaign's possible connections to Russian operatives and oligarchs.

As Mueller's investigation of those allegations has intensified, Trump has stepped up his tweeting about what he has called "Hillary Clinton crimes."

And White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters this week that investigators have been looking at the wrong issue as they probe a 2016 meeting involving Donald Trump Jr., Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a lawyer who Trump Jr. had been told would have information from Russia that would damage the Clinton campaign.

"If you want to talk further about a relationship with Russia, look no further than the Clintons, as we've said time and time again," Sanders said.

The White House message is reverberating on Capitol Hill. Most of the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee last week signed a letter asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to name another special counsel this one to investigate Clinton.

The committee's Republicans are united in another bid for Justice Department documents on Clinton and a list of other former officials, including Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former FBI Director James Comey and, as the committee put it, "possible Hillary Clinton co-conspirators."

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said during the committee debate last week, "If it's in the public interest to investigate the Trump administration, it is most certainly in the public interest to investigate the real crimes by the real criminals."

But the calls for law enforcement probes of a defeated candidate may be unprecedented.

"I can't really think of any previous experience to compare it to," said Daniel Feller, a presidential historian at the University of Tennessee. As a specialist in Andrew Jackson's presidency, he knows a lot about partisan conflicts in American politics.

It's rare to see candidates re-fighting an election, he said, but this is particularly odd because "it's the winners who want to re-fight it."

Clark, the law professor, said of the calls for a Clinton investigation, "I think it puts the democracy at risk." She added, "It's improper to use the investigative authorities of the state as a raw political tool."

She noted that President Richard Nixon tried to get the FBI and Internal Revenue Service to investigate his political rivals. The House Judiciary Committee put that abuse of power in the articles of impeachment against Nixon.

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A story originally posted on TheLastLineOfDefense.org falsely said former Secretary of State had suffered a fatal heart attack.

An online story about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suffering not just one heart attack, but three, is a fake news story concocted by a parody site run by a liberal troll.

"Breaking: Hillary Clinton has third heart attack docs says she wont survive," read the headline on a July 28, 2017, post on PoliticsPaper.com. Facebook users flagged the post as being potentially fabricated, as part of the social media sites efforts to combat fake news.

The article called Clinton the "Butcher of Benghazi" and quoted Dr. Eugene Icsa of Westchester Memorial Hospital in upstate New York as saying, "We predict shell be at rest within hours."

The story further said daughter Chelsea was visiting, but husband and former President Bill Clinton was "sitting on the front porch of the Chappaqua mansion drinking what looks like either tomato juice or a Bloody Mary."

There have been no other reports of Hillary Clinton suffering a massive coronary episode;its because she hasnt. The story is fake.

The photo ostensibly of a doctor feverishly working to save Clintons life is actually a stock photo we most recently found on a Seattle Times story about the challenges facing trauma nurses.

Theres not even a Westchester Memorial Hospital in upstate New York, as far as we can tell. There is a Westchester Medical Center in Westchester, N.Y., but thats it.

This item was originally posted on July 22 on TheLastLineOfDefense.org, a website run by a man named Christopher Blair, who creates absurd news stories in an attempt to fool conservative readers.

A footnote on the bottom of the website said that "everything on this site is a satirical work of fiction." The warning is repeated in the About Us section, where a disclaimer reads, "We present fiction as fact and our sources dont actually exist."

This site and its troll-run brethren like to write about Clintons death quite a bit. OurLandOfTheFree.com, a related website, wrote on July 13 that Clinton died of an overdose of Dilaudid, which is a brand-name of the opioid painkiller hydromorphone. TheLastLineOfDefense.org also ran a series of stories in which Hillary and Chelsea Clinton died in a boating accident that was the result of sabotage.

Clinton is still very much in the news, since Republican members of Congress continue to push for investigations into her own campaign activities. But shes still alive.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have hired a top Democratic pollster to conduct research for their charity, further fueling speculation that Zuckerberg has Oval Office ambitions.

Joel Benenson was the chief strategist for both of Barack Obamas presidential campaigns as well as Hillary Clintons failed presidential campaign.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has hired Benensons company, Benenson Strategy Group,according to Politico. The consulting firm has previously worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and Lady Gagas Born This Way Foundation.

Following the birth of their son in December 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan vowed to give away 99 percent of their fortune worth an estimated $45 billion to charity.

The couple previously hired David Plouffe, Obamas campaign manager for his 2008 presidential run, to serve as the philanthropys president of policy and advocacy.

Earlier this year they also brought on Amy Dudley, a former communications adviser to Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Ken Mehlman, who ran President George W. Bushs 2004 reelection campaign, also sits on the charitys board.

And Zuckerbergs personal photographer, Charles Ommanney, was the photographer to George W. Bush and Obamas presidential campaigns.

In January, Zuckerberg announced that his 2017 New Years resolution was to visit all 50 states kicking off speculation that hes gunning for a presidential run in 2020 despite his denials. Hes since road tripped through Iowa, toured a Ford assembly plant near Detroit, and visited Dayton, Ohio, all considered key campaign stops.

Some of you have asked if this challenge means Im running for public office, he wrote on his Facebook page in May. Im not.

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In a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto, Donald Trump claimed he won New Hampshire last November because its a drug-infested den.

In the call on January 27, a week after his inauguration, Trump was embroiled in a tense exchange with his Mexican counterpart over drugs coming over the southern border and why he believed a wall was necessary, according to a transcript published Thursday by The Washington Post.

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We have the drug lords in Mexico that are knocking the hell out of our country, Trump said. They are sending drugs to Chicago, Los Angelesand to New York. Up in New HampshireI won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested denis coming from the southern border.

Trump didnt, in fact, triumph in New Hampshire in the election, losing to Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton by a 0.3 percent margin. However, he did score a resounding win in the Republican primary in the Northeastern state.

New Hampshire has the highest synthetic opioid death rate in the country. However, by far the biggest cause of overdose deaths in the state has been the powerful painkiller fentanyl. And it is China, not Mexico, that is the primary source of fentanyl in the United States, according to law enforcement officials and drug investigators.

Trump, though, insistedthat Mexico was to blame for the United Statess drug problem.

We are becoming a drug-addicted nation, and most the drugs are coming from Mexico or certainly from the southern border, he went on to say to Nieto.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Mexico's President Enrique Pea Nieto during their bilateral meeting at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7. Carlos Barria/Reuters

The reports of Trumps comments were met by swift condemnation from New Hampshire SenatorMaggie Hassan, who tweeted,@realDonaldTrump's comments about New Hampshire are disgusting.

The Democrat added,As he knows, NH and states across America have a substance misuse crisis. To date, @POTUS has proposed policies that would severely set back our efforts to combat this devastating epidemic across party lines to actually stem the tide of this crisis.

And the senior senator from the state, Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, soon followed suit. Statingthat Trump owed New Hampshire an apology, she tweeted that its absolutely unacceptable for the President to be talking about NH in this waya gross misrepresentation of NH & the epidemic.

Trump, who also alleged that drugs were being sold for less money than candy, was adamant during the call that Pea Nieto should not say publicly that his country would not pay for the wall along the southern border. Trump insisted during his campaign, and afterward, that Mexico would foot the bill.

You cannot say that to the press, he said. The press is going to go with that, and I cannot live with that. You cannot say that to the press because I cannot negotiate under those circumstances.

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