"His unwarranted late-inning revival of the but, her emails! foolishness completely changed the nature of the race. I have recalled here before how I went to a Trump event in Manchester, New Hampshire, early one afternoon. The mood was positively elegiac. I left and drove up to his next stop at a small old mill town in Maine. While I was on my way, listening to CNN on the satellite radio"
"The president has demanded the department go after one of his foremost enemies, even though career prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Mr. Comey. Prosecutors have been looking into whether Mr. Comey should be charged with lying to Congress in connection to the F.B.I. investigation of Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign's ties to Russia, which the president claims was a witch hunt aimed at destroying him."
James Comey's late-2016 decision to reopen the Clinton email matter shifted presidential campaign momentum and energized Donald Trump's rallies within hours. Lindsey Halligan, a former Trump defense lawyer newly appointed at the Department of Justice, is reportedly rushing to draft an indictment against Comey under pressure from the White House. Career prosecutors previously concluded there was insufficient evidence to indict. Investigators have been examining whether Comey lied to Congress about the FBI's probe into the Trump campaign's 2016 Russia ties. Halligan could act before the statute of limitations on Comey's testimony expires, raising concerns of political retribution.
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