FBI director cost Hillary the US election, says Bill Clinton

December 20, 2016 00:02

In the aftermath of his wifes defeat to Donald Trump, former US president Bill Clinton reportedly bumped into the editor of a local newspaper in upstate New York and made clear his opinion as to what had led to the surprise victory for the Republicans.

According to an editorial published in the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review, Clinton laid the responsibility at the feet of FBI Director James Comey, and his revelation that the agency had reopened its probe into Ms Clintons use of a private email server.

The revelation provided fresh ammunition to Clintons opponents to attack her in the final weeks of the campaign, even though Mr Comey subsequently made clear that the Democratic presidential candidate was not guilty of a prosecutable offence.

That controversial intervention was sufficient to cost Clinton the chance of becoming the USs first female president, according to her husband.

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