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James Comey’s October Surprise

.. The statement continued, “Director Comey’s letter refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are and the Director himself notes they may not even be significant. It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just eleven days out from a presidential election.”

.. Trump himself, after spending months portraying Comey as a Clinton patsy who inexplicably failed to prosecute his opponent, told a rally in New Hampshire, “I have great respect for the fact that the F.B.I. and the D.O.J. are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made.”

.. although Comey told Congress in July that the Clinton investigation had been completed, it hadn’t technically ever ended. There were still some staffers working on the case, so it wasn’t accurate to say, as Chaffetz had done, that it had been reopened.