Oh Hillary, yeah you were close but but not close enough and in all honesty, this past election was a pin the tail on the jackass and voters thought your ass wasn’t big enough – PB/TK
Hillary Clinton: ‘I was on the way to winning’ the election until the FBI and Russia interfered – By Natasha Bertrand May 2 2017
Hillary Clinton told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour during an event on Tuesday that she believed she was “on the way to winning” the 2016 presidential election until the FBI announced 11 days before it that it was revisiting the investigation into her use of a private email server.
The former secretary of state said that while she took “absolute personal responsibility” for her defeat, “a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off.”
On October 28, Comey, the director of the FBI, wrote a letter to Congress saying that the FBI had learned of “the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent” to the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, which had been closed in July.
The letter was promptly released by Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the chair of the House oversight committee, and dominated the headlines of major media outlets in the days leading up to the election.
“As Nate Silver has concluded, if the election had been on October 27, I would be your president,” Clinton said.
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