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A Twitter account President Trump retweeted Friday morning has posted a series of incendiary tweets, including one accusing Hillary Clinton of murdering former DNC staffer Seth Rich. Another tweet claimed the former president Barack Obama had a secret male lover.

Nonetheless, Trump retweeted this tweet from @Team_Trump45 to his more than 35 million followers:

Other tweets from the account are far more incendiary.Larry Sinclair is a disturbed individual who claims to be Barack Obamas former lover.

Conspiracy theorists have seized on the murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich as a way of deflecting blame from Russian hackers. The account not only advanced that theory but accused Hillary Clinton of murdering Rich.

This is not the first time Trump has retweeted hate-mongering accounts. During the campaign, Trump routinely retweeted top influencers in the white genocide movement. In March 2016, he retweeted a picture unfavorably comparing the physical appearance of Ted Cruzs wife to his wife Melania.

In November 2015, Trump defended his decision to retweet a user who posted an inaccurate, racist graphic about black crime stats, telling then-Fox News host Bill OReilly, All it was is a retweet. It wasnt from me, and it did it came out of a radio show and other places.

Trump has been a bit more discerning about who he retweets since the election, but his tweets on Friday suggest he may be reverting to old form on the first day of his 17-day summer golf vacation.

Though Trump accuses Democrats of being unable to move past the election, his retweet of @Team_Trump45 came the morning after he urged new investigations of Hillary Clinton during a rally in West Virginia. Hes reportedly considered hanging a similar picture of the electoral results in the White House, and recently urged a Washington Post reporter to try and have the paper run an image of the map on its front page.

As the Post broke down on Friday morning, the map Trump retweeted is misleading. It only depicts for geographical space, not the number of people who live in each county. Deep-blue Los Angeles County, for instance, doesnt appear large on a map, but Clinton won the county by 48 points.

The Hill reports that @Team_Trump45 is followed by several top Trump allies on Twitter, including Fox News host Sean Hannity, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, and former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn.

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Trump retweets account that traffics in wild conspiracy theories, accused Hillary Clinton of murder - ThinkProgress

The FBI monitored social media on Election Day last year to track a campaign of "fake news," believed to be orchestrated by Russia to benefit the Trump campaign, according to a report Friday.

CNN reports that dozens of agents and analysts were stationed at a command center watching social media feeds sharing stories thought to be part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

Many of the stories, shared on Facebook and Twitter, were used to spread viral news stories focused on making false claims about Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president.

Teams at the FBI, Homeland Security Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence held conference calls with the White House every three hours on Election Day to report updates.

U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed Russian interfered in the 2016 election, and part of its efforts including spreading disinformation. Multiple committees in Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller are investigating Russia's election intrusion, and the possibility the Trump campaign conspired with Russia.

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FBI monitored social media on Election Day for 'fake news' about Hillary Clinton: Report - Washington Examiner

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Hillary Clinton, face of 'Scandals Filed, But Not Forgotten' Washington Times In this Sept. 21, 2016, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pauses as she speak during a campaign stop at the Frontline Outreach Center in Orlando, Fla. Clinton is calling her new book What Happened and promising to let ... 'Prosecutors Would Be Interested in This': Judicial Watch Reveals More Clinton-Abedin EmailsFox News Insider Judicial Watch uses new Huma Abedin emails to press Trump Justice DepartmentWashington Examiner 'Classified info, influence peddling, cover-ups': More Clinton emails brought to lightRT OneNewsNow -American Thinker (blog) -Independent Journal Review all 21 news articles »

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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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President Trump reacts to bad news by railing on Hillary Clinton's emails - Boston Herald

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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