2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I am so SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of everyone armchair quarterbacking Hillary!!!! [View all]pnwmom
(109,572 posts)with his unprecedented announcements, against justice Department policy.
In October, he had just told Congress that he couldn't announce that Russia was interfering in the election, because THAT would interfere in the election. And then he went the opposite way and deliberately interfered in the last few days -- to help Trump
Of course she knew her emails were an issue. But she could NOT know that -- just as the press was focusing on the pussy-grabbing videos -- James Comey would make an announcement that they had re-opened their investigation, that there were hundreds of thousands of more emails to look at, and that it might not be finished before the election.
All of which was really a lie. They already knew from the meta-data that only a small fraction were Huma's and the vast majority were duplicates. This was all just a show and Comey knew it.