Echoing Donald Trump's words, former lobbyist Jack Abramoff strongly believes Hillary Clinton should be in prison, according to The Daily Caller.
The Democratic presidential nominee "is the most corrupt person in the history of the United States to get this close to the presidency, including by leaps and bounds Warren Harding," Abramoff said on the latest episode of "The Jamie Weinstein Show" podcast.
"She's been involved in activities that frankly, I was put in prison for and that I was in prison with other people who did other things that she did," he said.
Abramoff, who was charged with fraud and corruption and spent four years in prison, elaborated on how to overcome corruption in Washington.
Aramoff also accused Clinton of "selling special access" to donors of the charitable foundations run by her and husband Bill.
"Her staff — Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin — were very involved in facilitating donors getting special access," he said. "Forget about whether they got results, because that's not really the metric. The metric is, are you using your public service to do something for somebody in exchange for a quid pro quo and there seems to be very little doubt there is."
Abramoff elaborated that even if donors were just getting meeting appointments with the former secretary of state, it still holds that they were getting something in return.
"People who understand government and understand clients and understand access in this town understand that when you give money and you get a meeting, you're getting the ask," he said.
"You may not get the result, or you may get the result by the way. In some cases apparently they did, but just getting the meeting, getting the access, getting use over government, public service employees by virtue of your contributions, that is special access," he continued.
"That may not be statutory bribery but that is certainly absolutely honest services fraud, without question.
"Anybody who looks at that and says, ‘well that's perfectly okay,' is either lying because they're trying to support Hillary, hypocritical or they just don't understand what's going on in Washington," he continued.
To clarify further, Abramoff argued that "even if all of the money that she extracted and he extracted from these world leaders in exchange for the favors they did in the State Department went to altruistic purposes," it "is still improper."
"That was exactly what happened with me," he explained. "I asked people to give money to foundations that were actually doing things for people. It was still considered to be inappropriate and improper."
Abramoff went on to slam the Clintons, saying they were just running the charity foundations to "gain importance" and "get control."
While Hillary Clinton has called all allegations surrounding the Clinton Foundation "absurd," Bill Clinton too has defended the charitable work.
"We're trying to do good things," he said in August. "If there's something wrong with creating jobs and saving lives, I don't know what it is. The people who gave the money knew exactly what they were doing. I have nothing to say about it except that I'm really proud. I'm proud of what they've done."
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