ABC News(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump took a fresh jab at former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, suggesting in two tweets late Tuesday that his own FBI Director James Comey had intentionally gone easy in his investigation of her emails.
“FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds,” Trump said in a Twitter post.
FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds! The phony…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2017
…Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election. Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2017
The comments came the same day Clinton spoke at a Women for Women event in New York where she, in part, blamed Comey for her election loss.
During her remarks, Clinton said she was “on the way to winning” the election until a last-minute letter to Congress from Comey and the release of campaign emails from WikiLeaks made some voters change their minds.
“If the election had been on Oct. 27, I would be your president,” Clinton told moderator Christiane Amanpour. “I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on Oct. 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off.”
“And the evidence for that intervening event is, I think, compelling, persuasive — and so we overcame a lot in the campaign,” Clinton added.
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