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| FBI reviewing new emails related to Clinton investigation – campaign live | FBI reviewing new emails related to Clinton investigation – campaign live |
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| Today in Campaign 2016 | |
| Anthony Weiner is the character in a zombie movie who doesn't admit that he's been bitten & then gets everyone killed | |
| Yet again, Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame. She was entrusted with some of our nation’s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information. This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators. I renew my call for the Director of National Intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for Secretary Clinton until this matter is fully resolved. | |
| And one more thing: | |
| Honestly impressed that there are still dick jokes left to make. pic.twitter.com/H7QczVrfn3 | |
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| The FBI is not, for the record, “re-opening” the case against Hillary Clinton: | |
| With FBI re-opening criminal investigation, Democrats on the ballot must now be asked whether or not they still support @HillaryClinton | |
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| David Smith | David Smith |
| Whatever doubts gnaw at Donald Trump at dead of night, his hardcore supporters will not allow him to give up the dream of the White House. | Whatever doubts gnaw at Donald Trump at dead of night, his hardcore supporters will not allow him to give up the dream of the White House. |
| All 18 people interviewed by the Guardian at a Trump campaign rally in the battleground state of Ohio on Thursday night challenged the basic premise that he is losing. If anything, they seemed even more convinced than he is that opinion polls and mainstream media cannot be trusted so he should not throw in the towel. | All 18 people interviewed by the Guardian at a Trump campaign rally in the battleground state of Ohio on Thursday night challenged the basic premise that he is losing. If anything, they seemed even more convinced than he is that opinion polls and mainstream media cannot be trusted so he should not throw in the towel. |
| Trump, channelling the mix of vexation and continued hope, said: “I’ve been saying if we win ‘cos I want to be nice, right, but the people are getting angry at me so we’ll just say when we win on November 8.” | Trump, channelling the mix of vexation and continued hope, said: “I’ve been saying if we win ‘cos I want to be nice, right, but the people are getting angry at me so we’ll just say when we win on November 8.” |
| But the omens are not good. As Hillary Clinton dominates opinion polls and gets positive signs from early voting, Trump has stopped formal, major donor fundraising events for the Republican party. He has reportedly cut back on transition plans and taken time off the campaign trail to open his new hotel in Washington. Recently Trump dolefully asked supporters whether they were glad he ran, adding: “I’ll let you know on the evening of November 8 whether I’m glad.” | But the omens are not good. As Hillary Clinton dominates opinion polls and gets positive signs from early voting, Trump has stopped formal, major donor fundraising events for the Republican party. He has reportedly cut back on transition plans and taken time off the campaign trail to open his new hotel in Washington. Recently Trump dolefully asked supporters whether they were glad he ran, adding: “I’ll let you know on the evening of November 8 whether I’m glad.” |
| The candidate’s rally at a sports complex in Geneva – his third in Ohio on Thursday – drew an estimated 7,000 people but was far from full, in contrast to his swashbuckling early campaign. It was overwhelmingly white, including many retirees. But those who did attend waved “Trump/ Pence” and “Make America great again” signs and chanted “Lock her up!” and “Build the wall!” with the usual gusto. | The candidate’s rally at a sports complex in Geneva – his third in Ohio on Thursday – drew an estimated 7,000 people but was far from full, in contrast to his swashbuckling early campaign. It was overwhelmingly white, including many retirees. But those who did attend waved “Trump/ Pence” and “Make America great again” signs and chanted “Lock her up!” and “Build the wall!” with the usual gusto. |
| They nodded approvingly when Trump described his opponent as “unstable” and jeered when Trump reeled off a list of State Department expenditures during Clinton’s tenure as secretary, including $79,000 on Barack Obama’s books, $630,000 to try to make State Department Facebook pages more popular and $88,000 to send three comedians to India. | They nodded approvingly when Trump described his opponent as “unstable” and jeered when Trump reeled off a list of State Department expenditures during Clinton’s tenure as secretary, including $79,000 on Barack Obama’s books, $630,000 to try to make State Department Facebook pages more popular and $88,000 to send three comedians to India. |
| They whooped with delight when the showman made reference to Vice-President Joe Biden’s recent comment that he would like to take him behind the gym. “You know what you do with Biden? You go like this.” Trump turned to one side and blew a puff of air from his mouth. “And he’d fall over.” He added: “I dream about Biden. Boy, would that be easy. That would be an easy function.” | They whooped with delight when the showman made reference to Vice-President Joe Biden’s recent comment that he would like to take him behind the gym. “You know what you do with Biden? You go like this.” Trump turned to one side and blew a puff of air from his mouth. “And he’d fall over.” He added: “I dream about Biden. Boy, would that be easy. That would be an easy function.” |
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| Tomorrow morning’s New York Post cover: | Tomorrow morning’s New York Post cover: |
| Tomorrow's cover: Weiner sext probe found dirt on Hillary https://t.co/6z0BJkr23s pic.twitter.com/hAk6D02j8y | Tomorrow's cover: Weiner sext probe found dirt on Hillary https://t.co/6z0BJkr23s pic.twitter.com/hAk6D02j8y |
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| Hillary Clinton campaigns in Des Moines, Iowa | Hillary Clinton campaigns in Des Moines, Iowa |
| Watch it live here: | Watch it live here: |
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| An Iowa woman has been arrested on suspicion of committing voter fraud by voting twice in the general election, according to the Des Moines Register: | An Iowa woman has been arrested on suspicion of committing voter fraud by voting twice in the general election, according to the Des Moines Register: |
| Terri Lynn Rote, 55, was booked into the Polk County Jail about 3:40 p.m. Thursday on a first-degree election misconduct charge, which is a Class D felony. | Terri Lynn Rote, 55, was booked into the Polk County Jail about 3:40 p.m. Thursday on a first-degree election misconduct charge, which is a Class D felony. |
| Rote, a registered Republican, reportedly cast an early voting ballot at the Polk County Election Office, 120 Second Ave., and another ballot at a county satellite voting location in Des Moines, according to a Des Moines police report. | Rote, a registered Republican, reportedly cast an early voting ballot at the Polk County Election Office, 120 Second Ave., and another ballot at a county satellite voting location in Des Moines, according to a Des Moines police report. |
| This is Rote: | This is Rote: |
| An Iowa woman has been arrested on suspicion of voter fraud. https://t.co/6qHiBdne60This is her: pic.twitter.com/slmn7Nhlf6 | An Iowa woman has been arrested on suspicion of voter fraud. https://t.co/6qHiBdne60This is her: pic.twitter.com/slmn7Nhlf6 |
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| Joe Biden reacts to secretary of state rumor: 'I don't want to remain in the administration' | Joe Biden reacts to secretary of state rumor: 'I don't want to remain in the administration' |
| Vice president Joe Biden has responded to the rumor that Hillary Clinton’s campaign is considering him as a possible secretary of state in a hypothetical Clinton administration, saying that he’s flattered by the consideration but doesn’t want to remain in the administration. | Vice president Joe Biden has responded to the rumor that Hillary Clinton’s campaign is considering him as a possible secretary of state in a hypothetical Clinton administration, saying that he’s flattered by the consideration but doesn’t want to remain in the administration. |
| “I’ll do anything I can if Hillary’s elected to help her, but I don’t want to remain in the administration,” Biden told CNN affiliate KBJR. “I have no intention of staying involved. I have a lot of things to do, but I’ll help her if I can in any way I can.” | “I’ll do anything I can if Hillary’s elected to help her, but I don’t want to remain in the administration,” Biden told CNN affiliate KBJR. “I have no intention of staying involved. I have a lot of things to do, but I’ll help her if I can in any way I can.” |
| Politico reported yesterday that sources within the campaign had tipped their hats toward Biden as a secretary of state, a nod to his widely acknowledged foreign-policy acumen. | Politico reported yesterday that sources within the campaign had tipped their hats toward Biden as a secretary of state, a nod to his widely acknowledged foreign-policy acumen. |
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| Eleven. More. Days. | Eleven. More. Days. |
| Hearing @jasoninthehouse & House Oversight Cmte are discussing holding a last-min hearing bringing in FBI DIr. Comey next Fri pre-election. | Hearing @jasoninthehouse & House Oversight Cmte are discussing holding a last-min hearing bringing in FBI DIr. Comey next Fri pre-election. |
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| Hillary Clinton's email woes refuse to go away – what does this latest twist mean? | Hillary Clinton's email woes refuse to go away – what does this latest twist mean? |
| Dan Roberts | Dan Roberts |
| Eighteen months and 30 miles away from where Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign began, the issue that has dogged the Democratic candidate from the start caught up with her on Friday, when director James Comey announced the FBI was reviewing newly discovered emails relating to her personal server. | Eighteen months and 30 miles away from where Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign began, the issue that has dogged the Democratic candidate from the start caught up with her on Friday, when director James Comey announced the FBI was reviewing newly discovered emails relating to her personal server. |
| We know from leaked emails that even Clinton’s closest friends thought it was “insane” to secretly communicate via a private computer server while working as secretary of state. | We know from leaked emails that even Clinton’s closest friends thought it was “insane” to secretly communicate via a private computer server while working as secretary of state. |
| “Do we actually know who told Hillary she could use a private email?” wrote close aide and transition team member Neera Tanden in a July 2015 note recently revealed by WikiLeaks. “And has that person been drawn and quartered? Like [this] whole thing is fucking insane.” | “Do we actually know who told Hillary she could use a private email?” wrote close aide and transition team member Neera Tanden in a July 2015 note recently revealed by WikiLeaks. “And has that person been drawn and quartered? Like [this] whole thing is fucking insane.” |
| Fortunately for Clinton, in July the FBI eventually decided to let this potentially illegal evasion of security protocol pass with a sharp wrap on the knuckles. | Fortunately for Clinton, in July the FBI eventually decided to let this potentially illegal evasion of security protocol pass with a sharp wrap on the knuckles. |
| There was an audible intake of breath among campaign followers in the summer, when Comey criticised her for being “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information, but his decision not to recommend criminal chargesbrought to an end the one threat deemed capable of preventing her from becoming president. | There was an audible intake of breath among campaign followers in the summer, when Comey criticised her for being “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information, but his decision not to recommend criminal chargesbrought to an end the one threat deemed capable of preventing her from becoming president. |
| That was, at least, until Comey dropped a fresh bombshell. The three-paragraph letter he released to Congress on Friday revealing the existence of potentially significant new evidence may or not have any legal bearing on whether charges are again possible. It certainly had a political impact. | That was, at least, until Comey dropped a fresh bombshell. The three-paragraph letter he released to Congress on Friday revealing the existence of potentially significant new evidence may or not have any legal bearing on whether charges are again possible. It certainly had a political impact. |
| Clinton was in the air when the letter leaked. An onboard Wi-Fi outage meant she may not have discovered its existence at all until her plane landed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for a campaign stop just down the road from her very first event as a candidate on 14 April 2015. | Clinton was in the air when the letter leaked. An onboard Wi-Fi outage meant she may not have discovered its existence at all until her plane landed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for a campaign stop just down the road from her very first event as a candidate on 14 April 2015. |
| There was a long delay in her leaving the plane as aides urgently gathered onboard to discuss the issue. A planned photoshoot with Annie Leibowitz had to be cut short. Her opponent wasted no time pointing out that it is never a good look for a presidential candidate to be under criminal investigation by the FBI. | There was a long delay in her leaving the plane as aides urgently gathered onboard to discuss the issue. A planned photoshoot with Annie Leibowitz had to be cut short. Her opponent wasted no time pointing out that it is never a good look for a presidential candidate to be under criminal investigation by the FBI. |
| “Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before,” was Donald Trump’s predictable hyperbole at a rally minutes later in New Hampshire. “We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.” | “Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before,” was Donald Trump’s predictable hyperbole at a rally minutes later in New Hampshire. “We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.” |
| Democrats rushed to downplay its significance on Friday, as campaign chairman John Podesta suggested Comey may have been “browbeaten” by aggressive Republicans into announcing a relatively minor wrinkle for the sake of transparency. | Democrats rushed to downplay its significance on Friday, as campaign chairman John Podesta suggested Comey may have been “browbeaten” by aggressive Republicans into announcing a relatively minor wrinkle for the sake of transparency. |
| The investigation had still not officially been closed, so it is also oversimplifying to say, as many initially did, that it has been “reopened”. The fact that the evidence in question reportedly comes from separate investigation into a sex scandal engulfing Anthony Weiner, the estranged of husband of Huma Abedin, one of Clinton’s key aides, should make it less relevant to her security case, not more. | The investigation had still not officially been closed, so it is also oversimplifying to say, as many initially did, that it has been “reopened”. The fact that the evidence in question reportedly comes from separate investigation into a sex scandal engulfing Anthony Weiner, the estranged of husband of Huma Abedin, one of Clinton’s key aides, should make it less relevant to her security case, not more. |
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| Speaking in Lisbon, Maine, nearly an hour after he was scheduled to appear - there was an issue with the stairs on his plane - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a room full of supporters that Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers when she served as secretary of state is “the biggest political scandal since Watergate.” | Speaking in Lisbon, Maine, nearly an hour after he was scheduled to appear - there was an issue with the stairs on his plane - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a room full of supporters that Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers when she served as secretary of state is “the biggest political scandal since Watergate.” |
| “The FBI, after discovering new emails, is reopening their investigation into Hillary Clinton,” Trump said, inaccurately. “I have great respect for the FBI for righting this wrong. The American people fully understand her corruption and we hope all - all - justice will finally be served.” | “The FBI, after discovering new emails, is reopening their investigation into Hillary Clinton,” Trump said, inaccurately. “I have great respect for the FBI for righting this wrong. The American people fully understand her corruption and we hope all - all - justice will finally be served.” |
| “This is the biggest political scandal since Watergate, and I’m sure that it will be properly handled from this point forward.” | “This is the biggest political scandal since Watergate, and I’m sure that it will be properly handled from this point forward.” |
| “Now, getting back to things that don’t sound quite as exciting, but they’re so important, right?” | “Now, getting back to things that don’t sound quite as exciting, but they’re so important, right?” |
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| Donald Trump campaigns in Lisbon, Maine | Donald Trump campaigns in Lisbon, Maine |
| Watch it live here: | Watch it live here: |
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| And former governor Mike Huckabee goes there. | And former governor Mike Huckabee goes there. |
| Who would have thought a Weiner would be HRC’s undoing?😱 | Who would have thought a Weiner would be HRC’s undoing?😱 |
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| Ted Cruz has released a statement in response to the latest Clinton email mishegas: | Ted Cruz has released a statement in response to the latest Clinton email mishegas: |
| Americans already know Hillary Clinton’s lifelong pattern of corruption. It is abundantly clear that her handling of classified information on a private email server was grossly negligent, as the FBI admitted this summer. The question is whether our top law enforcement agencies will ever act to hold her accountable. | Americans already know Hillary Clinton’s lifelong pattern of corruption. It is abundantly clear that her handling of classified information on a private email server was grossly negligent, as the FBI admitted this summer. The question is whether our top law enforcement agencies will ever act to hold her accountable. |
| For decades, the FBI has earned a reputation for fair and impartial enforcement of the law, free of partisan influence. Director Comey’s previous half-hearted investigation of Hillary Clinton did serious damage to that reputation, and this latest revelation affords the FBI the opportunity to begin to repair that damage. | For decades, the FBI has earned a reputation for fair and impartial enforcement of the law, free of partisan influence. Director Comey’s previous half-hearted investigation of Hillary Clinton did serious damage to that reputation, and this latest revelation affords the FBI the opportunity to begin to repair that damage. |
| The FBI has yet to provide access to the information that was used in its previous decision, as requested by me and other Senate Judiciary members, including Chairman Grassley, and it should do so. | The FBI has yet to provide access to the information that was used in its previous decision, as requested by me and other Senate Judiciary members, including Chairman Grassley, and it should do so. |
| Whatever new evidence has been found should be thoroughly investigated, and I hope that - unlike with the prior investigation - Director Comey will demonstrate the courage to uphold the law and restore the integrity of the FBI. | Whatever new evidence has been found should be thoroughly investigated, and I hope that - unlike with the prior investigation - Director Comey will demonstrate the courage to uphold the law and restore the integrity of the FBI. |
| Elected officials, no matter how high their position, should be held accountable for criminal conduct. The rule of law matters, and it should apply equally and fairly to us all. | Elected officials, no matter how high their position, should be held accountable for criminal conduct. The rule of law matters, and it should apply equally and fairly to us all. |
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| Hillary for America has a new video pairing Donald Trump’s own words with the experiences of contestants in his numerous beauty pageants: | Hillary for America has a new video pairing Donald Trump’s own words with the experiences of contestants in his numerous beauty pageants: |
| “This is a man who relishes making women feel terrible about themselves, in every possible way,” Clinton said in Iowa today, before the video’s launch. “Someone who thinks belittling and objectifying women makes him a bigger man. He goes after dignity and self-worth of women, and I don’t think there’s a woman anywhere who doesn’t know what that feels like.” | “This is a man who relishes making women feel terrible about themselves, in every possible way,” Clinton said in Iowa today, before the video’s launch. “Someone who thinks belittling and objectifying women makes him a bigger man. He goes after dignity and self-worth of women, and I don’t think there’s a woman anywhere who doesn’t know what that feels like.” |
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| Realtalk: | Realtalk: |
| Billy Bush and Anthony Weiner are why you don't tell mediocre children that they can be anything when they grow up. | Billy Bush and Anthony Weiner are why you don't tell mediocre children that they can be anything when they grow up. |