Jolted by the FBI’s decision to order a new probe related to her emails, Hillary Clinton has demanded that the agency release all facts immediately even while asserting that she is “confident” that the new probe will not change its original conclusion that she should not be prosecuted.
“We don’t know the facts, which is why we are calling on release all of the information that it (FBI) has. Even Director (James) Comey noted that this new information may not be significant. So let’s get it out,” the Democratic presidential nominee told reporters in Iowa on Friday night.
“We are 11 days out from perhaps the most important national election of our lifetimes. Voting is already under way in our country. So the American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately. The director himself has said he doesn’t know whether the e-mails referenced in his letter are significant or not. I’m confident whatever they are will not change the conclusion reached in July (against prosecuting her),” she said.
Donald Trump, in sharp contrast, was quick to welcome the FBI decision. “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 Department of Justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made,” the Republican nominee said at a rally in New Hampshire.
The newly-discovered emails, numbering more than 1,000, were reportedly found on a computer used by disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide. Abedin separated from Weiner two months ago after it emerged that he was exchanging lewd messages with a woman on social media.
While Clinton herself appeared calm at her brief news conference, her aides were furious over the FBI move and its timing, coming as it did just 11 days before Election Day and at a time when a slew of polls indicated that Clinton might well be on course to a comfortable victory.
