US President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the Justice Department to probe the email practices of Huma Abdein, a close aide of his 2016 Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton. <br/><br/>Abedin, who is both of Pakistani and Indian origin, is a close aide of Ms Clinton, the former secretary of state who lost to Mr Trump in the 2016 presidential elections. <br/><br/>In a tweet, US President said that Abedin has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. Mr Trump accused her of putting Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents.<br/><br/>She was at the center of a political storm in 2016 after the FBI announced that it was reopening its probe into Clinton's email scandal after they found pertinent emails related to the case on a laptop shared by Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner.<br/><br/>Last week the State Department released all emails from the laptop of Weiner, a former Congressman from New York.<br/><br/>In another development, Abedin's first cousin Omar Amanat was convicted in a fraud case invoking fake emails.