Former President Bill Clinton said his wife could move past every controversy during her presidential campaign, except Russian hacks and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey.
“I watched her work for two years, I watched her battle through that bogus email deal,” Clinton said after casting his electoral vote for Hillary Clinton in New York.
“She fought through that, she fought through everything,” he said. “She prevailed against it all but in the end we had the Russians and the FBI deal and she couldn’t prevail against that.”
The comments came on the heels of an interview Clinton gave to a local newspaper near their home in Chappaqua, N.Y., ripping President-elect Trump as someone who “doesn’t know much” except “how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”
The Record-Review in Bedford and Pound Ridge, N.Y., reported Clinton said Russia clearly was trying to harm his wife’s campaign.
“You would need to have a single-digit IQ not to recognize what was going on,” the former president said.
He added Comey’s letter 10 days before the election announcing that he was reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server “cost her the election.” The newspaper printed the comments in its print edition, but no web story was available.
