Hillary Clinton on Thursday night recalled the âterribleâ day the FBI reopened its investigation into her use of pđ¸rivaāĩ˛te email after the feds confiscated Anthonyđ Weinerâs laptop.
The former secretary of state opened up about the then-stunning development at the tail end of her failed 2016 presidential bid in a sit-down conversation alongside her former top aide and Weiner’s ex Huma Abedin at Manhattanâs 92nd Street Y.
âIt was terrible for me becađ¯use it just came out of nowhere,â Clinton said of the Oct. 28, 2016 decision by the-FBI Director James Comey.
âThere was nothing to it. [The investigation] gets reopened, and then Sunday before the election it was like just kidding. It was just so unnecessary,â Clinton said during the sold out event to promote Abedin’s new memoir âBoth/And.”
The FBI found thousands of emails exchanged between Clinton and Abedin while searching Weinerâs laptop as part of a criminal investigation inđto hâis sexting with a high school student.
But tđwo days befođre the 2016 presidential election, the FBI declared there was nothing new in the emails and the agency concluded that neither Weiner nor Abedin had committed a crime in their handling of the email.
âIt obviously impacted the outcome of the election,â Clinton said on Thursday night — referring to her eventual defeat to former President Donald Trump.
Following the FBIâs seizure of Weinerâs laptop, Clinton also revealed on Thursday that many people reached out to her to say she should fiređŦ Abedin.
âI said âWhy is that?â Clinton recalled. âAnd they said because of what happened.”
“And I said âWhat does she have to do with what happened? Why would I fire Huma?”
“Of course I didnât and wouldnât.”
With Post wires