Leaders also said they were tantalizingly close to winning a number of other close races, but Democrats had to work to counter fresh Republican attacks on Clinton. Suddenly, on Tuesday, it sprang to life with a handful of posts, one a nothing-burger on Fred Trump, father of the Republican standard-bearer; and another on an old investigation of the Clinton Foundation and President Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich, then a fugitive hedge-fund manager whose wife had donated to the DNC and the Clinton Foundation.
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Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s longtime – and arguably closest – aide, has stepped off the campaign trail in the wake of the FBI’s announcement last week that it was investigating thousands of emails found on a laptop shared by her and her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner.
In an effort to shift the focus away from the latest trove of emails and back to Mr Trump’s vulnerabilities, the Clinton campaign released a provocative new ad raising the specter of a possible nuclear war if Mr Trump is elected president.
“I fear he has unintentionally and negatively affected public trust in both the Justice Department and the FBI”, Holder wrote. He went on to accuse Comey of releasing inconclusive information about the Democratic candidate and said he ought to do the same for her Republican rival.
Earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said he would neither “defend nor criticize” Comey’s decision, and said Obama maintained his confidence in the director’s ability to carry out his job.
Clinton accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation of having jumped into the election “with no evidence of any wrongdoing with just days to go”.
In a letter to the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General, Reps.
“We do take seriously the longstanding norms and customs” that have historically limited what law enforcement can say about a pending investigation, Schultz said.
In July, Comey said Clinton had been “extremely careless” in dealing with the classified material, but that no criminal charges were warranted.
For those few voters who remain undecided a week before the 2016 presidential election, the choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may come down to which potential new scandal they can look past.
“I think what has happened is that he knows that Republicans, if he makes any misstep the Republicans are going to be all over him and they’re going to try to bring harm to him”, Cummings said. “And I got to tell you, some of what we’ve learned – some of this stuff is very upsetting”, Clinton said.
This may not be enough to turn public attention away from a revived FBI investigation into whether Clinton put U.S. secrets at risk by using a private email server while serving as secretary of state. “And when I think about what we now know about Donald Trump and what he’s been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting and assaulting women”. Meanwhile, FiveThirtyEight gives Clinton an 81.2 percent chance of winning MI.
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The FBI has not said whether it will be able to finish its investigation in time to divulge its findings before the election.
