“Rank and file” FBI agents will ensure that Hillary Clinton does not get away with alleged crimes, Donald Trump said Sunday night on the campaign trail, a veiled reference to FBI director James Comey’s statement Sunday.
The Republican presidential candidate said at a stop in Michigan that the investigations of Clinton’s “crimes will go on for a long time” and that the “rank and file” of the FBI “won’t let her get away with her terrible crimes.”
Earlier in the day, Comey had apprised members of Congress that nothing had been found in a review of a new possible source of Clinton’s emails to change the conclusions of the agency’s earlier investigation into Clinton’s private server that she used while serving as Secretary of State. Recent news reports have suggested that the FBI is subject to tense internal divisions regarding investigations into Clinton.
“You can’t review 650,000 new emails in eight days, you can’t do it folks,” Trump said, in another reference to Comey’s announcement, casting doubt on the thoroughness of Comey’s review.
“Right now she is being protected by a rigged system,” Trump said of Clinton, adding that it would be up to the people to “deliver justice at the ballot box.”
