Bill Clinton breaks with Hillary on impact of Comey letter
November 19, 2017 by admin
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Former President Bill ClintonBill ClintonTop Oversight Dem pushes back on Uranium One probe Bill Clinton hits Trump, tax reform plan in Georgetown speech The Hill’s 12:30 Report MORE on Saturday said he disagrees with his wife on the impact of former FBI Director Jame’s Comey’s decision to reopen his investigation into Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonGOP rushes to cut ties to Moore Papadopoulos was in regular contact with Stephen Miller, helped edit Trump speech: report Bannon jokes Clinton got her ‘ass kicked’ in 2016 election MORE‘s private email server just days before the 2016 election.
Clinton said the decision to reopen the investigation wouldn’t have been as damaging had the controversy surrounding her emails not been overblown in the first place.
“We have a slight disagreement about this,” the former president said, speaking alongside the former secretary of State at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of his 1992 presidential victory.
“If the voters hadn’t really been told that the email…was the most important issue since the end of World War II, I doubt if the FBI director could have flung the election at the end.”
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of State has long been the subject of controversy and an FBI investigation.
That FBI probe ended last year, when Comey announced that the bureau did not believe Clinton’s actions warranted charges. But months later, less than two weeks before the November presidential election, Comey revealed that the bureau had reopened the probe after it uncovered additional emails on the computer of former Rep. Anthony Weiner.
Eventually, Comey said that the agency had closed the probe again. But Clinton has cited the controversy surrounding Comey’s Oct. 28 letter announcing that he was reopening the investigation as politically damaging and detrimental to her presidential bid. She eventually lost to then-candidate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpDems win from coast to coast Falwell after Gillespie loss: ‘DC should annex’ Northern Virginia Dems see gains in Virginia’s House of Delegates MORE.
Hillary Clinton has said on multiple occasions that she believes the letter was among a number of factors that cost her the election.
