Donald Trump hails FBI move to re-open probe in Clinton's email case
"As you might have heard earlier today, the FBI after discovering new emails is reopening their investigation into Hillary Clinton," Trump told his supporters yesterday in the
"I have great respect for the FBI for righting this wrong," said Trump, who had been very critical of the agency's decision three months ago to close the investigation against
"The American people fully understand her corruption and we hope all, all justice will finally be served," Trump said amidst a big applause from the audience.
"This is the biggest political scandal since Watergate and I'm sure that it will be properly handled from this point forward," he said.
The news that the FBI has re-opened its case broke when Trump was on his plane to
"So that is a big announcement that I heard 10 minutes ago and I guess obviously most of you folks have heard about, and in all fairness for all of the people that have suffered for doing so much less, including just recently four-star General James Cartwright, General Petraeus and many others. Perhaps finally justice will be done," Trump said.
Referring to the FBI's decision, he said the system might be as rigged as he had been alleging for the past several months.
"What I've just announced previously it might not be as rigged as I thought. Right? Right?" he asked his cheering audience. "The FBI, I think they're going to right the ship. I think they're going to right the ship. And they're going to save their reputation by doing so," said the Republican White House candidate.
Trump alleged that
"This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understood. And it is everybody's hope that it is about to be corrected," he said. The billionaire from
scandal is bigger than Watergate. "This is bigger than Watergate in my opinion. This is bigger than Watergate," he asserted.
"Hillary bleached and deleted 33,000 e-mails after receiving a congressional subpoena" from the US Congress, he claimed.
"She lied to the Congress, she lied to the FBI, she made 13 phones disappear, some with a hammer. The
"Right now that takes care of itself, I think, I think. Very proud that the FBI was willing to do this actually, really, very proud," Trump said amidst another round of applause.
"Just yesterday we learned that Bill Clinton's right-hand man pushed for
"This man explained that the cozy relationship between his consulting firm to foundation and
"The same people paying Bill Clinton for speeches were lobbying Hillary Clinton at the same," he alleged.
"These people are seriously corrupt. Hillary's pay for play included defence contracts. Take Raytheon, when the contractor wanted big foreign arms deals, they hired three lobbyists that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Hillary's last campaign, and are raising money for her current campaign," Trump alleged.