Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine believes FBI Director James Comey applied a double standard in providing details about the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails while remaining largely silent about a probe of Donald Trump’s campaign.
“I’m just saying Director Comey testified this week and he made it very plain that he broke the FBI rules with respect to the Clinton campaign, and he chose not to break the rules with respect to the Trump campaign,” Kaine told CNN Friday.
During congressional testimony Wednesday, Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he felt concealing that he was reopening the investigation of his running mate Clinton’s emails, two weeks before the election, would have been “catastrophic.”
“Even in hindsight, and this has been one of the world’s most painful experiences, I would make the same decision,” Comey said Wednesday.
Kaine acknowledged that Comey’s actions were not the biggest contributing factor to his campaign’s loss, but argued the FBI director’s decision marked a low point in the history of the agency.
“I think it will go down as probably the lowest moment in the history of the FBI, probably next to the decision to wiretap Martin Luther King and it was unfortunate,” Kaine said.
