When asked about their opinion of the candidates, regardless of how they were planning to vote, and their character attributes, potential voters said they considered Trump to be more honest and trustworthy than Clinton, and viewed him as a stronger leader than Clinton.
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A summary of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state reveals flaws in her oft-repeated defense – that she never sent or received information marked classified.
“I firmly believe that your decision was not based on convenience but conviction”, Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD-7) said. Comey said “any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position… should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation”.
The Clinton campaign said it was pleased by the FBI’s announcement and said the Republican-led call for Comey’s hearing a “taxpayer-funded sham of an inquiry” meant to hurt Clinton politically. Comey, in testimony to a House committee hearing on Thursday, said, “That’s not true”.
Notice how Clinton continually used the words “marked classified” in an effort to make it seem less like she put sensitive USA information at risk.
Despite clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton can expect a further onslaught of attacks from Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has accused her of playing by a different set of rules from the American public.
“I still have trouble understanding what is the difference between extremely careless and grossly negligent”, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said.
Republicans said they were infuriated with the FBI’s decision and confused by the way it was presented. Mrs. Clinton was grossly careless with our national security and has lied to us concerning the matter of her email server when she was secretary of State.
Did Comey choose the word “careless” with the take-care clause in mind?
Clinton noted that there were about 300 people in the government with whom she emailed over the course of four years.
Mica later pointed out that Comey already confirmed that Clinton had made several false statements regarding her email server, meaning what she told FBI investigators should have been subjected to the highest scrutiny.
Comey said that prosecutions for classified material have historically been reserved for cases of intentional or willful wrongdoing, obstruction of justice or disloyalty to the U.S. He drew distinctions between the Clinton probe and last year’s prosecution of former CIA Director David Petraeus, who pleaded guilty to sharing classified information with his biographer.
“My conclusion was and remains that no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case”, Comey said.
“In that case, you had vast quantities of highly classified information… not only shared with someone without authority to have it, but we found it in a search warrant… and then he lied to us about it during the investigation”, Comey explained.
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It’s now clear the meeting between President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch last week was a premeditated attempt at cooking justice – making sure that neither the Justice Department nor the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is part of the Justice Department, would recommend charges against what were plainly illegal acts by Hillary Clinton.
