Comey: It's not over

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[h=1]FBI dramatically reopens Hillary email investigation - because of new messages found on Huma or husband's phones as investigators probed DailyMail.com's revelation Weiner sexted a 15-year-old girl[/h]

• FBI Director James Comey has dramatically revealed Hillary Clinton is back under investigation because new emails have come to light
• New emails were found on either Anthony Weiner or Huma Abedin's phones which were seized when DailyMail.com revealed he sexted a 15-year-old girl
• FBI launched probe in September after disclosure that he sent explicit messages and photographs to a girl he knew was 15
• Clinton said nothing when she made her first public appearance, just over an hour after bombshell, at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• Her campaign chairman launched assault on FBI for 'extraordinary' move, and accused Comey of bowing to 'browbeating' by Donald Trump
• Donald Trump, in Manchester, New Hampshire, was cheered as he told supporters FBI were right to overturn 'a miscarriage of justice'
• Development is just 11 days before America votes and amid a sliding poll lead for Clinton who has been hit by revelations of her family's tangled business and charity interests from leaked emails
• Comey announced in July that he wouldn't recommend prosecuting Clinton for breaching laws on the handling of classification
• He said he found her 'extremely careless' but she had no criminal intent

By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR, IN MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE and GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR, IN CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ALANA GOODMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:22, 28 October 2016 | UPDATED: 21:45, 28 October 2016

 

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The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's secret server was dramatically re-opened – after devices belonging to chief aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner were seized during a probe into him sexting a 15-year-old girl.
In a move that sent shockwaves through both presidential campaigns, James Comey said in a letter to Congress that an investigative team is seeking to determine if any of the emails contain classified information and whether any of them are 'significant'.
The FBI swooped on Weiner and Abedin after DailyMail.com revealed that he had sent sexual messages to a 15-year-old, and he was placed under investigation by it and New York police.
The Weiner bombshell was revealed by the New York Times. The FBI investigation into Weiner was opened within days of DailyMail.com revealing how he sent sexually-charged messages and explicit pictures to a girl who he knew was 15.
With just 11 days until the presidential election, Clinton was on a plane with no WiFi coverage when the announcement was made. It is unclear if Abedin was by her side.
When she made her first public appearance in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, just an hour after news broke, she said nothing about the investigation.

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Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton spoke on board Clinton's campaign plane just hours before news broke on Friday that the FBI was re-opening its investigation into the presidential nominee's emails after new emails came to light during a separate investigation into Abedin's husband, Anthony Weiner

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Friday that was examining new Hillary Clinton emails it believes to be 'pertinent' to her case

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Clinton was in the air, on her way to Iowa (pictured getting off the plane in Iowa), when the news of the re-opened investigation broke

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Photographer Annie Leibovitz (right at the top of the steps) followed Clinton off the plane after conducting a photo shoot while in the air

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Clinton, pictured getting into a vehicle once arriving in Iowa, had no WiFi coverage when the announcement was made

The FBI's bombshell was prompted by the discovery of 'another device' with emails relevant to the investigation, NBC News reported.
NBC News national security correspondent Pete Williams reported that this was not technically a re-opening of the probe, as it had never been shut.
Although Clinton said nothing following the announcement, her campaign chairman John Podesta - whose own emails were published by WikiLeaks – issued a furious denunciation of Comey and suggested he had bowed to Trump's political pressure.
'It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election,' the statement said.
'Upon completing this investigation more than three months ago, FBI Director Comey declared no reasonable prosecutor would move forward with a case like this and added that it was not even a close call.'
'In the months since, Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been baselessly second-guessing the FBI and, in both public and private, browbeating the career officials there to revisit their conclusion in a desperate attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
'FBI Director Comey should immediately provide the American public more information than is contained in the letter he sent to eight Republican committee chairmen.
'Already, we have seen characterizations that the FBI is 'reopening' an investigation but Comey's words do not match that characterization.
'Director Comey's letter refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are and the Director himself notes they may not even be significant.'
Donald Trump hailed the move as a chance to right 'a miscarriage of justice' as a crowd of supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, chanted 'lock her up'.
The sense of a new Clinton crisis came as her poll lead collapsed to four points in the latest nationwide survey.
Comey said that after learning about the emails he advised the bureau to take 'appropriate investigative steps' to review them.
Clinton, a former secretary of state and the Democratic nominee for the White House, leads Republican presidential nominee Trump, by four points in the latest polling.
Comey sent the letter to heads of the of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Judiciary Committees and two Appropriations subcommittees that deal with justice issues, as well as the House's Oversight Committee and the Senate's Homeland Security Committee.

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When she made her first public appearance in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, just an hour after news broke, she said nothing about the investigation

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The investigation began after devices belonging to Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner were seized in a separate federal investigation

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The FBI swooped on Weiner and Abedin after DailyMail.com revealed that he had sent sexual messages to a 15-year-old girl

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In the messages, which were obtained by the Dailymail.com, Weiner repeatedly complimented the girl's body, told her that she made him 'hard'. He also sent the girl a selfie from a hot tub

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Weiner and the girl used several anonymous messaging apps, like the one pictured above, where every line of text - and the sender's name - disappear after the message is opened. In one message he told he would 'bust that tight p***y so hard'

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The message continues, and Weiner says he would bust that tight p***y so hard and so often that you would leak and limp for a week'. Weiner began talking to the girl in January, after she messaged him on Twitter

 

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'In connection with an unrelated case,' Comey told them, 'the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.'
Comey said that after becoming aware of the new information yesterday he 'agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to access their importance to our investigation.
[h=3]ANTHONY WEINER SEXTING SCANDAL [/h]The FBI, the New York Police Department, and US attorneys in New York and North Carolina opened investigations into Weiner's conduct in late September, after DailyMail.com exclusively reported on Sept. 21 that the former politician carried on a months-long online relationship with a 15-year-old high school girl.
Weiner exchanged flirtatious and sexually-charged messages the teen for months after the girl struck up a conversation with him on Twitter in January.
Weiner told the girl he woke up 'hard' after thinking about her, sent her shirtless photos, and complimented her body. He also encouraged her to talk to him on the video-chat application Skype.
The girl alleged that during these Skype conversations, Weiner asked her to get undressed and touch herself. She claimed he also asked her to dress up in school girl outfits and pretend he was her teacher and brought up 'rape fantasies.'
Weiner issued a statement to the Dailymail.com apologizing for 'repeatedly demonstrate[ing] terrible judgment about the people I have communicated with online and the things I have sent.'
In one particularly lewd message, he told the teen: 'I would bust that tight p***y so hard and so often that you would leak and limp for a week.'


'Although the FBI cannot yet access whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work, I believe it is important to update your Committees about our efforts,' he wrote.
Clinton was in the air, on her way to Iowa, when the news broke. Campaign officials gaggled with reporters earlier in the flight but had decamped the press section by the time the FBI investigation news reached 30,000 feet.
Clinton arrived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Friday shortly after news of the development broke in-flight.
After a prolonged delay on the tarmac while her motorcade waited outside her campaign plane, the candidate emerged, followed by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.
Leibovitz, who was traveling aboard Clinton's campaign plane, was escorted forward in the aircraft to conduct a photo shoot of Clinton while in flight, around the time that word broke of the sudden turnaround by the FBI.
Leibovitz shot photos for a minute or so, at which point Clinton and her top campaign aides moved into a private area to huddle. Liebovitz was not invited to shoot the high-stakes strategy session.
Clinton waved to reporters and didn't respond to shouted questions about whether she had been informed that the FBI had reopened its investigation. She then got into her motorcade and headed to her first campaign rally of the day.
Asked to react to the FBI announcement a senior Clinton campaign spokesperson told NBC News: 'No idea.'
Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine was campaigning in Tallahassee, Tennessee, on Friday.
He ducked a reporter's question about the investigation, saying, 'I've got to read more. I've got to read a little more'.
At the top of an early afternoon campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Trump took a victory lap and congratulated the FBI for deciding to take a second look at the case.
'The FBI has just sent a letter to Congress informing them that they have discovered new emails pertaining to the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's investigation,' he said, as 1,600 people erupted in a chant of 'Lock her up!'
'And they are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatens the security of the United States of America.'
'Hillary Clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office,' Trump declared.
'I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the Department of Justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made. This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understood, and it is everybody's hope that it is about to be corrected.'
He added a moment later: 'With that being said, the rest of my speech is going to be so boring! Should I even make the speech?'
His jubilant crowd screamed: 'Yeah!'
'The news this morning is – this is bigger than Watergate,' Trump said later in his speech.
In Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Trump's running mate Mike Pence was cheered as he told a rally: 'We commend the FBI for having the courage to re-open this case because no-one is above the law.'

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FBI Director James Comey said in a letter to Congress that an investigative team is seeking to determine if any of the emails contain classified information

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When Clinton (pictured in September) arrived in Iowa, she waved to reporters and didn't respond to shouted questions about whether she had been informed that the FBI had reopened its investigation

 

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Pence also tweeted: 'We call on the FBI to immediately release all emails pertinent to their investigation. Americans have the right to know before Election Day.'
House Speaker Paul Ryan meanwhile said in a statement that Clinton 'has nobody but herself to blame' for re-opened investigation.
'She was entrusted with some of our nation's most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information,' he said.
'This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators.
'I renew my call for the Director of National Intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for Secretary Clinton until this matter is fully resolved,' Ryan said.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Ryan's second-in-command, said the FBI's decision to take another look at the Clinton case 'showcases her fundamental lack of judgment and disregard for protecting and handling of our nation's highly classified secrets'.
McCarthy advised the FBI to conduct its 'investigation expeditiously, and thoroughly brief the American people of its findings in a completely transparent manner'.
An hour after the October surprise became public, President Barack Obama emerged from the White House and boarded Marine Force One.
The sitting president, on his way now to Orlando, Florida, to campaign for Clinton, ignored shouted questions about his former cabinet secretary's email scandal.

 

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At a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Donald Trump congratulated the FBI for deciding to take a second look at the case

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Trump told attendees of a campaign rally that the news of the FBI investigation is 'bigger than Watergate', after saying that Clinton's 'corruption is on a scale we have never seen before'

 

[JDeuce]

FBI dramatically reopens Hillary email investigation - because of new messages found on Huma or husband's phones as agents probed DailyMail.com's revelation Weiner sexted a 15-year-old girl

Hang on...why would Weiner have emails on his phone that were "doctored" by the Russians? How is that possible?

Oh yeah, dimocraps are scum. And their minions parrot stupid, absurd talking point bullshit.

Carry on.

 

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House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy spent two years investigating Clinton, famously keeping her in the chair under oath for 11 hours.
Republicans on the committee say the State Department and Clinton hampered their investigation by keeping emails related to the September 11, 2012, attack from them.
Gowdy did not immediately make a statement in response to the FBI's announcement, though.
Neither did House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz. The Republican Congressman said on his Twitter account that Comey told him about the pertinent emails and said 'case reopened', but that was all.
Mark Meadows, a Republican on the oversight committee, couldn't say which FBI investigation Comey was referring to in his letter.
'I can share with you that in discussions some weeks ago that some of the other areas that they were looking at…might have cross over,' he told Fox News on Friday afternoon.



'And so, not speaking specifically with any knowledge of any particular investigation,' he said, 'just the FBI in their normal way of being complete and making sure that everything is buttoned up, it would suggest that, the one criteria that Director Comey mentioned was intent.'
Meadows said he doesn't believe there there has to be intent for Clinton 'to be held criminally liable.
'But it would suggest that, perhaps, they found emails that, that would indicate that there was some intent to cover up or at least dispose of improperly,' Meadows said.
Clinton's lawyers deleted 33,000 emails they deemed personal in nature before she turned over her work product to the State Department.
Her team printed those emails out, roughly 30,000 of them, and put them in bankers boxes it told government officials they could pick up from her lawyer's Washington, DC-area office. FBI notes from the case revealed that that two of the boxes were missing and did not indicate that they were ever found.
Joseph diGenova, the former US attorney for Washington, DC, said the way the case was reopened signaled that there was significant dissent inside the FBI over how Comey previously handled the investigation.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has released thousands of emails damaging Hillary Clinton

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An hour after the news became public, President Barack Obama emerged from the White House and boarded Marine Force One



Comey had publicly defended the Clinton email probe as one of the most thorough investigations of all time, and diGenova said the revelation of unsearched emails undercut the bureau chief.
'I believe that there is an open revolt underway inside the bureau. Not the kind you're going to read about because that's not the way revolts happen in the FBI,' said diGenova. 'They serve [leadership] up publicly with new information. And what they did today was they made the FBI director look like a fool, and he knew it.'
DiGenova said that based on Comey's letter, it sounded like he planned to turn the investigation over to the same team that handled the case previously.
'I think he is sitting on a huge powder keg inside the bureau,' diGenova added.
Congressman Darrell Issa, chairman of the Oversight committee at the time of the Benghazi, attack said in a Friday afternoon tweet: 'FBI reopening investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of private server, it's important we get it right this time.'
Appearing on Fox News later in the afternoon, Issa told Neil Cavuto that he sent Clinton a letter when she was still secretary of state asking about a personal email address. Issa says he reminded her that State must have access to any messages she was sending or receiving that way if they pertained to her government work.
'Had she done what she knew she should have done she wouldn't be in this position,' Issa said on Fox. 'Had she come clean early on, she wouldn't be in this position.'
Had Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner done what they should have done, they wouldn't be in this position, either, he said.
'This is a major scandal…It's a scandal that didn't have to be,' Issa said. 'All she had to do was obey the law.'
It's not too late for Clinton 'to stop digging a hole', the Republican congressman said.
House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul said Comey's decision was 'overdue and attributable to her egregious use of a private server' and her 'fast and loose handling of classified information'.
'Her actions have likely compromised our national security, American intelligence and the brave men and women who carry out our most important military operations,' McCaul said. 'As a former federal prosecutor, I firmly believe and understand that no one should be above the law.'
Republicans rejoiced on Friday afternoon as a once-shut door swung back open with just enough time for them to keep Clinton out of the White House.
Arkansas Sen Tom Cotton also urged the FBI to 'conduct a speedy review of these new materials so that any conclusions or consequences can be made public before the November 8 election'.
'The American people deserve that clarity before they make their choice of who will serve as our next Commander-in-Chief,' said Cotton, a prospective 2020 candidate.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Comey couldn't have taken the decision to reexamine Clinton lightly.
'This stunning development raises serious questions about what records may not have been turned over and why, and whether they show intent to violate the law,' Priebus said.
'What's indisputable is that Hillary Clinton jeopardized classified information on thousands of occasions in her reckless attempt to hide pay-to-play corruption at her State Department. '
The Republican chief said, 'This alone should be disqualifying for anyone seeking the presidency, a job that is supposed to begin each morning with a top secret intelligence briefing.'



January 13 2009: Hillary Clinton's aide Justin Cooper sets up clintonemail.com domain. Huma Abedin signs off on it
January 21: Clinton is sworn in as Secretary of State
18 March: Clinton stops using her BlackBerry email account and switches to the newly created hdr22@clintonemail.com account. The domain is hosted on her own private email server, set up by her aide Bryan Pagliano
September 11, 2012: Four Americans are killed in attack on a U.S. base in Benghazi, Libya including Ambassador Chris Stevens
February 1, 2013: Clinton steps down as secretary of state
October 28, 2014: State Department demands Clinton's work-related correspondence as part of a congressional investigation into Benghazi
Fall 2014: Clinton's lawyers deletes 33,000 emails which they claim are 'personal'
December 5, 2014: Clinton's legal team provide roughly 30,000 emails to the State Department when they are demanded by a congressional investigation into Benghazi.
March 2 2015: The New York Times breaks the news that Clinton used a personal email account to conduct government business while secretary of state
July 25: Clinton says she is confident none of the emails on her private email server were classified at the time of sending and receiving
August 4: The Washington Post reveals the FBI has begun looking into the security of Clinton's private email set-up
September 10: Bryan Pagliano formally asserts his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer questions from a Republican-led House committee on her email arrangements
July 6, 2016: The Justice Department closes Clinton email probe and FBI Director James Comey announces the FBI won't prosecute. The decision was made by Comey because Attorney General Loretta Lynch had to recuse herself after a secret meeting with Bill Clinton
October 7: WikiLeaks begins release of thousands of emails hacked from the Gmail account of John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chair
October 28: FBI reopens its investigation into Clinton's server



Read more:

• The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
• Darrell Issa on Twitter: "FBI reopening investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of private server, it’s important we get it right this time. https://t.co/up8ty0hQo6"

 

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[h=1]Clinton goes to war on FBI for 'extraordinary' decision to reveal fresh investigation into her emails[/h]

• Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta questions why the FBI would release a statement about its inquiry into Hillary Clinton just days before the election
• Asks in a stern statement why the information went to 'Republican' committee chairs and seeks more information
• Claims it may not be a full-blown investigation
• 'It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election'
• The FBI announced Friday it had received new information and was going back to its inquiry into Hillary Clinton's emails

By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
PUBLISHED: 20:59, 28 October 2016 | UPDATED: 21:19, 28 October 2016




Now it's Hillary Clinton's campaign that is hitting the FBI – after the bureau announced Friday that it is reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails after developments in an unrelated case.
The Clinton campaign fired off a stern statement Friday 'in response to the letter sent by FBI Director James Comey to eight Republican committee chairman in Congress' – suggesting at the outside that some sort of partisan action was at play.
'It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election,' Clinton campaign chair John Podesta wrote in the official statement, the campaign's first comment since stunning word broke that Clinton's emails were back under the microscope at FBI headquarters.
It was the campaign's first official comment. The candidate did not respond to shouted questions as she got off her campaign plane at a campaign stop in Iowa.

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Hillary Clinton's campaign released a statement after news broke that the FBI was continuing its email inevestigation

'Upon completing this investigation more than three months ago, FBI Director Comey declared no reasonable prosecutor would move forward with a case like this and added that it was not even a close call,' Podesta began his statement.
'In the months since, Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been baselessly second-guessing the FBI and, in both public and private, browbeating the career officials there to revisit their conclusion in a desperate attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.'
Trump has repeatedly suggested at his campaign rallies that something was going on at the FBI, after the Comey announced this summer that he would not recommend bringing charges against Clinton. Trump also frequently brings up an airplane tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch shortly before the FBI announced its decision.

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Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta issued a stinging statement about the FBI on Friday

Podesta said Comey should 'immediately provide the American public more information than is contained in the letter he sent to eight Republican committee chairmen.'
'Already, we have seen characterizations that the FBI is 'reopening' an investigation but Comey's words do not match that characterization,' Podesta continued.
He said Comey's letter 'refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are and the Director himself notes they may not even be significant.'
The New York Times reported that emails related to an investigation of Rep. Anthony Weiner were what got the investigation going again.
If Clinton wanted an update on that case, she might be able to consult her longtime aide Huma Abedin, who was seated near her on her campaign plane Friday. The Times suggested information was gleaned from Abedin's devices in that case.
'The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining. We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July,' Podesta said.

 

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[h=6]OCTOBER 28, 2016 -[/h][h=1]DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT[/h]“I need to open with a very critical breaking news announcement. The FBI has just sent a letter to Congress informing them that they have discovered new emails pertaining to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's investigation, and they are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatens the security of the United States of America.

“Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.

“I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the DOJ are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made. This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understand. It is everybody’s hope that it is about to be corrected.” – Donald J. Trump

 

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[NFLTrends]

'It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election'

Wait, what??

Yet you have no problem parading women who were supposedly kissed by Trump 30 years ago??

Lmao!!!!!

 

[neverbend]

Hillary supporters don't care. To them, up is down, and male is female

Wiki leaks is bringing facts of corruption in e mails. if hitler himself hacked
these from the grave facts are facts and she's a lying crook

 

[neverbend]

Her people are claiming the FBI is re-opening the case because trump has
been "browbeating" Comey - what a freakin joke.
October 28, 2016, The day Crooked Hillary officially lost the election.

 

[roadreeler57]

If shes not finished now what Assange is supposed to release next week will put the final nail in her coffin....Some hacker in New Zealand has a bone to pick with the US Govt & the dumbasses have been blaming it on the russians....Supposedly all 33,000 E mails are still in existence the acid bleach job didnt work...

 

[ScottL]

"Hillary's Numbers Slide Off Wishes Of Weiner's Penis"

 

[Greenbacks]

 

[mountain]

We will find out soon enough, the leaks will be coming out soon. The FBI despises this woman.

 

[ShotgunPete]

Hillary supporters don't care. To them, up is down, and male is female

Wiki leaks is bringing facts of corruption in e mails. if hitler himself hacked
these from the grave facts are facts and she's a lying crook

That's why I'm not even getting my hopes up.Nothing sticks to her and people are going to blindly vote for her regardless.

 

[Conan]

I want to f**k Huma Aberdin