A veteran conservative activist says it's beyond question that Donald Trump is right when he warns he's campaigning against corruption.

"It is corruption," Gary Bauer says of the revelation that a half-million dollars in campaign contributions are tied to the FBI and its investigation of Hillary Clinton.

The Wall Street Journal reported in an Oct. 23 story that a political action committee operated by Terry McAuliffe gave $467,500 to a state senate candidate in 2015. That candidate is Dr. Jill McCabe, who lost her campaign to an incumbent Republican.

McCabe, a hospital physician, is married to FBI official Andrew McCabe, who is FBI deputy director and, incidentally, oversaw the FBI investigation of Clinton's illegal email server.

The Journal story describes McCabe's role as "part of the executive leadership team" that oversaw the investigation.

The FBI's own website lists McCabe as the top official under Comey.

McAuliffe is currently Virginia's governor – the same one who announced in April that he was allowing 200,000 felons to register to vote.

McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton ally, is also under investigation by the FBI for campaign contributions that flowed to McAuliffe from a Chinese businessman, the Journal story noted.

At the very least, says Bauer, Andrew McCabe should have recused himself from the Clinton investigation.

"To me," he tells OneNewsNow, "the whole thing is just another reminder that Donald Trump is absolutely correct when he says that Washington is full of corruption."

The revelation about McCabe comes after FBI agents expressed anger earlier this month that FBI Director James Comey failed to convene a grand jury to examine allegations of misconduct by Clinton.

"Comey thought this was going to go away. It’s not," a D.C. attorney representing some of the FBI agents told The Daily Caller last week.

During the summer, there was outrage when Attorney General Loretta Lynch secretly met with Bill Clinton on Lynch's airplane. It was claimed they discussed grandchildren and his golf game but not the investigation.

FBI agents were livid over that incident, too, because they consider Clinton a potential witness in that case.

Pay-to-play allegations over the Clinton Foundation have yet to go away, either, and the WikiLeaks emails suggest a $12 million payment from the king of Morocco for the foundation to set up an event there.

"It's a criminal enterprise," Trump said of the Clinton Foundation at the last presidential debate.

"It is a cesspool," Bauer says of Washington's corruption, "but we have a bunch of people sitting in it as if it was a Jacuzzi."

The fact that such corruption is undermining America as constitutional republic, he adds, and that means it should be an issue of the presidential election.

