CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: The Hill: Critics see signs of improper ties in new Clinton emails.

Republicans are seizing on a new collection of emails from senior aides to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, which they say show signs of corruption between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

At least three of the 44 new email exchanges released by conservative group Judicial Watch this week show a potentially inappropriate connection between senior State Department officials and people with ties to the Clinton family.

In one case from early 2009, the former “body man” to ex-President Bill Clinton who helped to create the Clinton Global Initiative asked Hillary Clinton’s State Department aides to “take care of” an unidentified associate as a “favor.”

In another message, the same man — Doug Band — asked Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills to connect a foundation donor and Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire with the State Department’s “substance person” on Lebanon.

And in the third case, the chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia sent Clinton a copy of testimony he was due to provide to Congress, and asked to help with her work “in any way I can.” The next day, Clinton asked Abedin about “connecting” with him in Beijing, either at the “embassy or other event.”

The “newest email scandal exposes pay for play connections,” GOP nominee Donald Trump’s campaign blared to reporters on Wednesday.

“Republicans are seizing on” — “Trump’s campaign blared.” This is how they — in this case, The Hill’s Julian Hattem — spin it when a Dem gets caught red-handed.