Hillary Clinton showed interest in visiting communist dictator Kim Jung II and socialist leader Hugo Chavez, according to emails obtained by Judicial Watch and released on July 2.
The new document trove contains 1,606 pages of emails from the unsecure non-government account of Huma Abedin, who was Clinton’s deputy chief of staff.
According to an email sent on April 18, 2009, Clinton had an encounter with Chavez and expressed interest in visiting him.
In the email, Abedin tells Senior Advisor Philipe Reines that Chavez spoke with Clinton, complimented former president Bill Clinton, and expressed hope that Hillary Clinton would come to visit Venezuela. Hillary Clinton told him that “she hoped so too.”
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (R) listens to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before the family picture during the Summit of the Americas at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain, Trinidad April 18, 2009. PRESIDENCIA/AFP/Getty Images
