Seizing on the FBI’s discovery of nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed emails and documents from Hillary Clinton’s secret server, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Monday called for a special prosecutor to investigate.

Speaking in the swing state of Ohio, Trump said the Justice Department was “a political arm of the White House” and could not be trusted to investigate “pay-for-play scandals” arising from Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state in the Obama administration. He accused Clinton of trading access for as much as $60 million in contributions to the Clinton Foundation from interests in Middle Eastern countries that oppress women, gays, and religious minorities.

“The amounts involved, the favors done, and the significant numbers of times it was done require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor — immediately, immediately, immediately,”

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“The amounts involved, the favors done, and the significant numbers of times it was done require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor — immediately, immediately, immediately,” he said. “After the FBI and Department of Justice whitewashed Hillary Clinton’s email crimes, they certainly cannot be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clinton’s crimes.”

At one point, the crowd at the rally broke into a “lock her up” chant.

Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, pointed to previously announced plans to end foreign and corporate contributions to the Clinton Foundation if she wins the election, according to CNN.

The call from Trump for an independent counsel came on the same day that the watchdog group Judicial Watch released 725 pages of documents obtained from the State Department as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. Those documents include email exchanges between Clinton, top aide Huma Abedin, and others suggesting that big donors to the Clinton Foundation got special access to the secretary of state.

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In once instance in 2009, the crown prince of Bahrain successfully asked the Clinton Foundation to intervene on his behalf after his requests through officials channels to meet with Clinton failed to get results.

A Justice Department attorney told a federal judge Monday that the FBI found 14,900 work-related emails and documents among tens of thousands of deleted emails that agents recovered during their investigation into Clinton’s use of a home-brew, private email server. They were not included in the batch of emails that Clinton’s attorneys determined were work-related and turned over to the State Department in 2014.

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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the government to prioritize Clinton’s emails and return to court on Sept. 22 with a plan to release them. He turned down a request from Justice Department lawyers to start releasing the documents in weekly installments starting Oct. 14.

“As the evidence has become public over the last several months, I’ve become increasingly shocked by the vast scope of Hillary Clinton’s criminality,” Trump said in the Akron speech.

Trump blasted Clinton for shifting responsibility for her handling of classified emails to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell disputed Clinton’s public account, saying that he sent a memo outlining his email use a year after Clinton set up her private server.

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“The Clintons made the State Department into the same kind of pay-to-play operation as the Arkansas government was,” Trump said. “Now, think of what happened back then … Pay the Clinton Foundation huge sums of money and throw in some big speaking fees for Bill Clinton and you got to play, you got to do what you wanted to do.”

Trump repeated one of the more serious allegations of abuse of power involving Clinton and the foundation. He said Clinton signed off on a deal allowing Russians to take a controlling ownership interest in a company called Uranium One, which owns a fifth of America’s uranium supply.

Trump promised an ethical about-face if he becomes president.

“A Trump administration will end the government corruption,” he said. “No one will be above the law. We will have one set of rules for everyone. In Hillary Clinton’s world, we have one set of rules for her and another set of rules for everyone else.”