Ignore them, they’re lying again
No, the investigation into Clinton’s emails hasn’t “re-opened.” The FBI is trying to fuck with the election.
FBI Director James Comey alerted Republican members of Congress on Friday that bureau investigators would review some additional emails that might relate to Hillary Clinton’s email server. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee who has already vowed to spend the next several years investigating Clinton should she be elected president, quickly rushed to announce the news, falsely claiming that the case had been “reopened.”
https://twitter.com/jasoninthehouse/status/792047597040971776
And other Republicans followed suit, and news outlets took the bait, and Trump gloated, and yadda yadda.
Though nothing in Comey’s letter said the case was being reopened, an array of news outlets repeated Chaffetz’s incorrect characterization. NBC News initially posted a story with this framing, later changing the headline and ledeto drop the claim. USA Today tweeted, falsely, that the FBI director had said the probe was being reopened. The Hill and Bloomberg also got the facts wrong.
But hey, that’s ok – it’s no big thing. It’s only whether or not the lying thieving sexually assaulting narcissist gets access to scary levels of power or not. No worries.
Despite the initial overreaction to the news, NBC’s Pete Williams has already reported that the newly found e-mails were not originally withheld by Clinton nor her campaign, the emails are not from Clinton, and the letter was sent to the Congressional leaders “out of an abundance of caution.” The AP reported that the emails did not come from Hillary Clinton’s private server. NBC’s sources called the story less than a game-changer.
But that did not stop Clinton’s critics from trying to turn it into one.
Because an exciting, though false, news item is always worth risking the fate of a country of 350 million people.
I am so fucking done with this… this crap has got to end. The only bright point here is that early voting has been under way for a while…
So, Hillary Clinton didn’t send the emails, they weren’t about her, she didn’t try to delete them, and they weren’t found on her server?
Lock! Her! Up!
Goodbye Senate majority (maybe Atheismo will smile upon us and that won’t happen)…
Right now it’s all innuendo (“Where there’s smoke there’s fire, am I right?”), but I’m afraid that’s enough to do damage.
Well, using a ‘news’ platform to pass along unchecked publicity statements? There’s your Free Market at work! Who needs to pay actual journalists, to do actual journalism?
I don’t think that’s what’s happening. Comey didn’t say the investigation was being “reopened,” that was Chaffetz. From the New Yorker piece:
It’s Republicans who are trying to fuck with the election. What a surprise.