Trump has accused the FBI of impropriety after it once again exonerated his rival Hillary Clinton of criminal conduct on her emails.
The FBI director said a fresh inquiry
into the Democratic candidate’s communications found nothing to change
the bureau’s conclusion this summer.
The Clinton campaign said it was “glad” the lingering issue had been resolved.
The dramatic twist lifted a cloud from her campaign as the final day of the marathon US election race loomed.
The latest opinion polls on Sunday,
before news broke of the FBI announcement, gave Mrs Clinton a four to
five-point lead over Mr Trump.
The Republican nominee cried foul after learning about the law enforcement bureau’s decision.
At a rally in the Detroit suburbs, Mr
Trump insisted it would have been impossible for the FBI to review what
has been reported to be as many as 650,000 emails in such a short time.
“Right now she’s being protected by a
rigged system. It’s a totally rigged system. I’ve been saying it for a
long time,” he told supporters in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
“Hillary Clinton is guilty, she knows
it, the FBI knows it, the people know it and now it’s up to the American
people to deliver justice at the ballot box on November 8.”
While Mrs Clinton herself did not
address the FBI director’s letter on the trail, her campaign said it was
always confident she would be cleared.
In Manchester, New Hampshire, on Sunday,
she said the country was facing “a moment of reckoning” and Americans
must choose between “division and unity”.
In July, the FBI said she had been
“extremely careless” to handle classified material on a private email
server as secretary of state from 2009-13, but it had found no evidence
she committed a crime.
However, 11 days before the election,
FBI director James Comey had pitched the race into turmoil by announcing
a newly discovered batch of Clinton emails would be investigated.
The bombshell infuriated the Clinton camp, but threw a lifeline to a Trump campaign that had been receding in the polls.
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