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Patrice was an ardent supporter of Clinton and told Schmidt how she had long dreamed about seeing a woman elected president. At the same time, she said she also believed Trump posed an existential threat to the country and wasn’t fit to assume control of the Oval Office.
She recounted how Comey came to her in their McLean, Virginia, home on October 27, 2018, and told her he had been briefed by his deputies that agents investigating the disgraced former House member Anthony Weiner had made a startling discovery on his laptop.
Weiner, who was under a criminal investigation for sending explicit message to a minor over the internet, was found to be in possession of a number of Clinton's emails on one of the devices he used to contact the teen girl.
His wife at the time was Huma Abedin, Clinton’s senior aide. Investigators reportedly found an enormous number of emails belonging to Clinton, including some that the bureau investigators thought they had not found during their original email investigation, which was closed months before.
Patrice said rather than appealing to her husband about Clinton’s political fate – which she said she knew would be a losing argument - she instead grilled him with questions.
‘What the hell are Hillary Clinton's emails doing on Anthony Weiner's laptop? How is Huma Abedin that incompetent with emails? Why is this coming out now?’ Patrice recounted telling her husband to Schmidt.
‘It's too close to the election. It's too close to the election,’ she said. ‘Don't you understand that?’
Comey reportedly grew irritated by his wife’s protests, insisting the gravity of the situation had nothing to do with timing and reiterating that he was supposed to be partisan in his decision making.
He then told his wife he had no other choice but disclose the discovery to Congress.
‘What is the alternative?’ he asked Patrice. ‘The alternative is a f***ing disaster,’ he continued, explaining how the bureau would be accused of having covered up for newly elected President Clinton if she won as projected.
‘This is going to be awful for you,’ she responded. ‘You just can't do it.’
Comey responded: ‘I am screwed no matter what happens. If I disclose this, I'm screwed. If I don't disclose this, I'm screwed. And so it's freeing in a way.’