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Clinton blames FBI director for presidential election loss
AP ^ | Nov. 12, 2016 6:14 PM EST | LISA LERER

Posted on 11/12/2016 4:59:14 PM PST by Dave346

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton is blaming the FBI's decision to revive its examination of her email accounts for her devastating defeat in the presidential election.

On a call Saturday with top campaign donors, Clinton said her campaign was winning until FBI director James Comey sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28 announcing that the FBI had uncovered emails possibly related to its earlier probe into her use of a private server as secretary of state. The new examination was sparked by an unrelated investigation into former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of one of her top aides.

Clinton told the donors that her campaign was leading by large margins in nearly every battleground state and was tied in Arizona, a traditionally Republican stronghold, until Comey released his letter.

Comey told lawmakers the Sunday before the election that the bureau had found no evidence to warrant criminal charges. His "all clear" message only served to further motivate Trump supporters, Clinton told donors on the call.

In the nine days between Comey's initial statement and his "all clear" announcement, nearly 24 million people cast early ballots. That was roughly 18 percent of the expected total votes for president.

While Clinton accepted some blame of her loss, said donors who listened to her call, she made little mention of the other factors driving Trump's victory: A desire for change by voters, possible sexism, the difficulty of a political party winning a third White House term, her campaign's all-but-dismissal of white working class voters and flaws within her own message.

(Excerpt) Read more at elections.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; emails; fbi; hillaryfbi; hillarylost; notagain
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To: purplelobster

There were lots of factors. “Sexism” was not her problem.
The CLINTON rabid ambition, both Bill & Hillary’s ambition
was part of it. ARKANCIDE performed on people who got in
their way; whether coincidence or not who knows?

COMEY could do no less than he did after WEINER’S access to
HILLARY’S computer activities, given the nature of WEINER’S
“computer activities”. HILLARY’S absolute tone deafness to
her alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood through WEINER’S
WIFE, HUMA ABEDIN WEINER as with OBAMA’S alliances with
the Muslim Brotherhood through Valerie Jarrett and others.
(WE were very pissed off about all the JIHADIST killings
of American citizens. It almost seemed suspicious that the
JIHAD sort of cooled down after someone in authority gave
the orders to “stand down” until after the election.

Also, wanting to disarm us was not agreeable to us.

HILLARY had too much POWER for too long and lost sight of
the practical concerns of those of us who do not have
high security walls and armed security guards.

The DHIMMI-CRAT PARTY has been weighed in the balances and
found wanting, HILLARY, as have you and BILL.


61 posted on 11/12/2016 6:04:38 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Dave346

funny, clintons staff and campaign managers are apparently blaming HER.


62 posted on 11/12/2016 6:08:00 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Dave346

Let’s see.... it looks like I’m reading an actual news article up until this point:

“she made little mention of the other factors driving Trump’s victory: A desire for change by voters, possible sexism, . . “

Whoops! It’s an editorial! My mistake.

(Naturally, I knew it was an editorial when it started with “AP.”)


63 posted on 11/12/2016 6:11:48 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: Dave346

Hmmmm Yet that weekend and the following days (until Coomey said never mind), all of the talking heads in the media and in the Clinton Camp (I repeat myself) said...It won’t make any difference. The email stuff is already “BAKED IN” LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL.


64 posted on 11/12/2016 6:12:41 PM PST by RRismyhero (Mr. Obama - You can keep your change.)
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To: Dave346

“there was a growing sick sense among longtime Clinton allies and advisers that the aide who long ago advised the former secretary of state against mounting a second presidential bid, Cheryl Mills, may have been right.”

yes, losing WOULD tend to confirm that Cheryl Mills had been right all along. Fascinating, that such an obvious conclusion would take so many days and dawn so slowly on Hillary’s advisers and aides.


65 posted on 11/12/2016 6:15:14 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Dante3

The emails of confidential info are even close to Comey’s first time letting the Clintoons legally slide. Goes back to Whitewater I believe. Comey has been facilitating the skating form of the Clintoons. He can’t work total miracles though.


66 posted on 11/12/2016 6:15:48 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Dave346

The old definition of chutzpah: Killing your parents and throwing yourself on the mercy of the court because you are an orphan.

The new definition: Hillary blaming Comey for her loss.


67 posted on 11/12/2016 6:17:18 PM PST by madameguinot
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To: catnipman

This was a donor meeting. She had zero motivation to blame herself. They knew it was BS.


68 posted on 11/12/2016 6:17:54 PM PST by Lemon Curry
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To: Dave346

Lock her up.


69 posted on 11/12/2016 6:20:02 PM PST by matt1234 (Need. More. Schadenfreude.)
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To: rdcbn

Comey is like the dishonest servant in the parable.

Because Hillary now blames him for costing her the Presidency, someone will take him in somewhere, as a gesture of gratitude.

He won’t be unemployed for long.


70 posted on 11/12/2016 6:22:24 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: realcleanguy

She’s setting up the excuse for the electoral college to break their vows.


71 posted on 11/12/2016 6:23:37 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: blueunicorn6

There were LOCUSTS!

https://youtu.be/JFvujknrBuE


72 posted on 11/12/2016 6:58:58 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Dave346

Stay out of any park


73 posted on 11/12/2016 7:01:41 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you)
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To: Dave346

Just when I was feeling a teensy bit of mercy for the Clintons, she has to open her mouth and confirm that they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Eradicate them from history just like the ChiComs do to leaders they purge.


74 posted on 11/12/2016 7:29:27 PM PST by databoss
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To: Dave346

Yeah, yeah...whatever, HilLIARy!

Couldn’t have possibly been your lies, your cover-ups, your deals, your crimes, your illegal e-mail server, your leaking secrets, your handing out money to terrorists, your murders, and the list goes on? Could it?


75 posted on 11/12/2016 8:01:12 PM PST by luvie (I love the troops. That is all....)
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To: Dave346

If You (hillary) weren’t a criminal he wouldn’t have done that.


76 posted on 11/12/2016 8:06:27 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Dave346
""It’s pretty extraordinary because Secretary Clinton has an extraordinary email arrangement with herself,” Gowdy said. “And she’s the author of her own destiny. Everything that has happened since then, it is the natural probable consequence of deciding you’re going to have a rogue email system. So, I understand she’s upset and I understand she doesn’t like the timing but she need not look further than herself.”"
10/28/2016 - REP. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.)


77 posted on 11/12/2016 8:20:52 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen (ELITE IMMUNITY: how the puppetmasters / puppets continue to function)
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To: realcleanguy
Your statement needed editing in order to properly emphasize the truth:

"Poor little baby Hillary; it is NEVER HER FAULT!"

"Poor little baby Hillary; NOTHING IS EVER HER FAULT!"

78 posted on 11/12/2016 10:51:51 PM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Dave346

I want to encourage folks to do a search on Youtube for the name “Eric Braverman”. He was the CEO of the Clinton Foundation and has been missing for three weeks now. There are about twenty videos on Youtube that explain in detail what Killary has been really up to as Secretary of State.


79 posted on 11/13/2016 2:27:51 AM PST by bergmeid
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