Anonymous ID: 699ef2 April 13, 2018, 3:23 p.m. No.1028875   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Hillary Clinton Was Going to Win Election, Comey Writes, And That’s Why He Announced His Email Probe

 

Former FBI Director James Comey believed Hillary Clinton would defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 election. So much so, that Comey wrote in his new book that he worried the FBI, Justice Department and Clinton’s potential presidency would face intense criticism if he hadn’t announced the reopening of her private email server probe less than two weeks before the election.

 

Fired by Trump in May, Comey has launched this week the media tour for his new book, A Higher Loyalty, with excerpts and quotes scattered across news outlets. Most of them have been damning accusations or insults about Trump's White House, but the book also reportedly delves deep into his handling of the Clinton investigation, The Guardian reported Friday.

 

He wrote: “Assuming, as nearly everyone did, that Hillary Clinton would be elected president of the United States in less than two weeks, what would happen to the FBI, the Justice Department or her own presidency if it later was revealed, after the fact, that she still was the subject of an FBI investigation?”

 

Comey famously told lawmakers in a letter on October 28, 2016—11 days before the election—that the FBI had “learned of the existence of emails that appear be pertinent to the [Clinton] investigation.” That revelation came more than three months after Comey said at a press conference that the FBI would not be charging Clinton.

 

Since losing the election, Clinton has blamed Comey, in part, for her loss.

 

THEY NEVER THOUGHT SHE WOULD LOSE.