Clinton campaign to media: Stop airing ads saying Clinton is under investigation

The Hillary Clinton campaign has issued cease-and-desist warnings to television and radio stations demanding they not air ads from pro-Donald Trump PACs that state the Democratic presidential nominee is “under investigation by the FBI.”

{mosads}According to a CNN report, the letters were sent on Sunday, the same day the FBI announced that newly discovered emails would not change the agency’s original conclusion that no charges were coming against Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of State. The announcement just two days before the presidential election came after a review of emails found on a laptop belonging to the estranged husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin that could be “pertinent” to the FBI’s investigation.

“These ads falsely claim Secretary Clinton is under investigation by the FBI,” wrote Marc Elias, general counsel for the Clinton campaign. 

Elias, who also served as general counsel to John Kerry’s 2004 campaign, also wrote that “at no point” did the FBI “reopen” an investigation into Clinton’s emails, adding, “The claim in these ads is provably false.”

The FBI first cleared Clinton of any criminal action regarding the handling of her State Department emails on July 5.