FBI Director James Comey in a Tuesday morning press conference said Clinton acted “extremely careless”, but not with criminal intent.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey says although there is evidence that these e-mails containing highly classified information were handled with extreme carelessness, he is not recommending the prosecution file charges against Mrs. Clinton.
“There has never been any man or woman more qualified”, Obama said of Clinton, including himself in that group, “ever”.
“As the Secretary has long said, it was a mistake to use her personal email and she would not do it again”, Fallon said.
Hillary Clinton and President Obama had originally planned to hold their first joint appearance back on June 15 in Wisconsin. In this year’s Democratic contest, young voters were overwhelmingly behind Vermont Sen.
But Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies breathed a sigh of relief after Comey all but erased the possibility that she might be indicted.
Later, Obama and Clinton dropped in unannounced at Midwood Smokehouse, a barbecue place in Charlotte. The state is considered a must-win for any Republican candidate. The Orlando terrorist shooting last month further postponed Obama’s first campaign event, as the President grew increasingly revved up to appear alongside Clinton, according to aides. President Obama, who was probably preparing to pardon her, just in case, began campaigning with Clinton within hours after the announcement (what an incredible ka-winky-dink!). He later issued a statement in which he claimed US “adversaries nearly certainly have a blackmail file on Hillary Clinton”, which he said “disqualifies” her from the presidency. “I don’t know of anyone with a security clearance who would still have a one if they had been as “extremely careless” as Clinton has been”, Rep. Blake Farenthold of Texas said on Twitter.
“Hillary’s got her share of critics”, Obama acknowledged. “The American people are sick and exhausted of the Washington elite insiders living under a different set of rules than everyone else”, Vitter said in a statement, adding that FBI Director James Comey’s announcement “sets a unsafe precedent moving forward”.
Chabot added that we “should have known” that the Obama administration wouldn’t prosecute its former Secretary of State for activity that happened on his watch. “Sasha tweets but she doesn’t think that she thereby should be sitting down at the desk”, he said, referring to the Oval Office. “Hillary Clinton has been tested, she has seen up close what’s involved in making those decisions”.
The president was particularly focused on Clinton’s economic message. “This is not a choice – the other side has nothing to offer you”, he told the crowd, which was dotted with blue signs bearing the slogan “Stronger Together”.
“I also know him as the friend that I was honored to stand with in the good times and the hard times”. Obama won the state in the 2008 general election but lost it narrowly in 2012.
With polls suggesting that more Democrats trust Obama than Clinton, the President will no doubt be one of Clinton’s most powerful surrogates in the general election. “There shouldn’t be one set of rules for political elites like the Clintons and another for everyday Americans”. He’s hoping his political push will help Clinton across the finish line in the presidential relay race.
Her favourable rating is now minus-16 per cent.
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Clinton’s personal email server, which she relied on exclusively for government and personal business, has shadowed her campaign since The Associated Press revealed its existence in March 2015.
