Hillary Clinton dutifully stuck to her prepared remarks at a campaign event Friday, and avoided any mention of the FBI’s surprise announcement it had found additional emails related to her private homebrew server.
The Democratic nominee spoke to supporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, about women’s rights, “trickle-down economics,” healthcare, student debt and battling climate change.
Clinton also spent a lot of time to attacking her opponent, GOP nominee Donald Trump. She attacked his business record, his comments on women and minorities and his claim that his avoiding paying federal income taxes makes him “smart.”
She did not, however, mention anything about FBI Director James Comey informing Congress this week that his agency had found a stash of emails possibly related to its earlier investigation of her private State Department server.
“In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation,” Comey said in an letter to Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
“I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation,” he said.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., was the first member of Clinton’s team to respond to the news. But even then, the Virginia senator would only say, “gotta’ read a little more, gotta’ read a little more.”
Another Clinton staffer would only say that he had “no idea” what the FBI was talking about.
The Democratic nominee, her aides and her traveling press corps were in the air en route to Cedar Rapids when the news broke. They had no access to WiFi, and many were out of the loop until touchdown.
When Clinton disembarked from her campaign plane, she ignored questions from reporters and declined to say anything about her emails.
