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NBC News
Donald Trump championed the news that the FBI is reviewing additional
emails "pertinent" to previous investigations into Hillary Clinton's
private email server as a game changer on Friday.
"This changes everything," he said to roaring crowds on the
campaign trail that interrupted him to chants of "lock her up."
But much of Trump's rhetoric about the Clinton emails is riddled with
errors, while the Democratic nominee herself obscured how the news of the
additional email review was released.
We fact checked everything both candidates said on Friday, and will
continue doing so here. Here's what they got right — and wrong — when talking
about the FBI and the former secretary of state's emails.
"The FBI, after discovering new emails, is reopening their
investigation into Hillary Clinton," Trump said in Lisbon, Maine, and
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday.
False. This is not a reopening; as a technical matter, it was never
closed. The FBI said they were reviewing emails that "appear to be
pertinent" to previous investigations into Clinton's use of a private
email server, but noted "the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this
material may be significant."
"This is the biggest political scandal since Watergate," Trump
said at his rallies Friday.
Hardly. Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for
lying under oath to Congress about an affair he had with an intern; no one has
found Hillary Clinton guilty of a crime to date.
"In brief remarks tonight, Hillary Clinton tried to politicize this
investigation by attacking and falsely accusing the FBI director of only
sending the letter to Republicans. Another Clinton lie. As it turned out, the
letter was sent to both Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress," he
said in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Clinton said the letter is "only going originally to Republican
members of the House," which is not true. The letter was
directed at Republican Congressional Committee chairmen and
copied to ranking Democratic members, so Trump is right that she's blurring the
facts to imply politicization. That said, he has spent weeks politicizing the
previously completed FBI investigation as "rigged" and part of a
global conspiracy.
"The FBI would never have reopened this case at this time if it were
not a most egregious criminal offense," Trump said in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
There is absolutely no evidence of this.
"We have not been contacted by anyone. First we knew about it is, I
assume, when you knew about it, when this letter sent to Republican members of
the House was released," Clinton said.
As noted above, the letter was released to the Republican Congressional
Committee chairman — in both the Senate and House — and copied to ranking
Democratic members
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