Clinton: Republican efforts to keep email scandal alive will ‘backfire’

Published July 7, 2016 8:19pm ET



Hillary Clinton’s campaign declared that FBI Director James Comey’s congressional testimony Thursday about the decision not to bring charges “shut the door on any remaining conspiracy theories.”

“Despite the partisan motivations of this hearing, we are glad it took place and that Director Comey had the opportunity to expand upon his remarks from earlier this week,” Hillary for America press secretary Brian Fallon said in a statement Thursday afternoon. “Director Comey’s testimony clearly knocked down a number of false Republican talking points and reconciled apparent contradictions between his previous remarks and Hillary Clinton’s public statements.”

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