In a series of late night tweets, President Donald Trump is responding to his former rival Hillary Clinton after her comments about losing the 2016 election.
- Hillary Clinton said FBI director's letter about her private email, server cost her the election
- President Donald Trump said James Comey gave Clinton a 'free pass'
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During an interview at a Women for Women International event in New York Tuesday, Clinton said, "If the election had been on Oct. 27th, I'd be your president. And it wasn't."
Clinton says she is taking responsibility for her election loss, but cited the FBI director's letter to Congress stating he was reexamining the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email and server while Secretary of State.
"It wasn't a perfect campaign, there is no such thing, but I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey's letter on Oct. 28th and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off," said Clinton.
Comey held a press conference last summer regarding Clinton's personal email server scandal and revealed that she was "extremely careless" in handling classified information.
"Eight of those chains contained information that was top secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained secret information at the time; and eight contained confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification," Comey said at the time.
The president then took to Twitter to respond to Clinton's claims:
FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds! The phony...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2017
...Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election. Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2017