Hillary Clinton criticizes FBI boss Comey sharply and indirectly accuses him of influencing the election by the new investigations. He had to reveal all the details.
Donald Trump uses the new twist to portray Clinton as "incapable" and "criminal" and thus catch up in the election campaign.
The Washington Post shows with new details about the Trump Foundation that Donald Trump donated much less money than he always claimed.
By Matthias Kolb and Johannes Kuhn
One day after the announcement of FBI boss James Comey, to make new researches to Hillary Clinton's e-mail affair, the presidential candidate claims the interpretative sovereignty for itself. In an election campaign in Florida, Clinton criticizes Comey with clear words: "It is quite strange to make public such a thing with so little information right before an election."
While the audience at Daytona Beach Comey is booming, the ex-Foreign Minister continues: "This is not only strange, it is unprecedented, and it is deeply disturbing because the voters have earned the full facts." She very much hoped that the FBI director would explain more and publish the necessary information: "Put everything on the table."
Actually, the FBI and the US Department of Justice in July had declared the investigation against the former chief diplomat because of the unauthorized use of a private e-mail address. Comey, who is a member of the Republicans, attributed Clinton "extremely careless behavior" in July, but was not advised by an accusation.
The fact that Clinton's election campaign consultants as well as various top democrats and senators are now attacking the FBI director is part of the political business: the tormented scandal issue nine days before the election does not determine the headlines again.
The Washington Post and some other media reported that Comey had denied a recommendation from the US Department of Justice with his letter to leading members of the Congress ( "We publish nothing that could be interpreted as influencing the election"). This fits the democrat's tenor, that the matter has a parteipolitic touch. With this message, democratic politicians will also appear Sunday morning in the TV talkshows.
Trump is boasting: I've seen scandal coming
It is similarly predictable how the Republicans will argue. The new investigations showed that Clinton was unsuited to become the successor to Barack Obama. Presidential Candidate Donald Trump calls the e-mail affair "the biggest political scandal since Watergate" - a claim which the journalist Carl Bernstein, who was then involved, immediately refers to the myths of the myths in his own superlative rhetoric.
On Saturday, Trump also boasted that he had recognized the "greasy character" of Anthony Weiner years ago and expressed his opinion on Twitter. As a reminder, the new twist in the e-mail scandal was triggered because the FBI found out about the sexting messages the Democratic ex-deputy exchanged with a 15-year-old. Trump also repeats another accusation: Clintons confidant Huma Abedin, Weiners' now separated wife, is a security risk that the democratic candidate should have recognized.
In his performance in Colorado, Trump talks about all sorts of speculation about the public's joy for a minute, and explains whether the 40-year-old Abedin will be released: "This will not happen, because she knows the real story has happened." These statements are understood by Trumps fans exactly as the candidate wants: Together with husband Bill, Hillary uses the Clinton family foundation to enrich himself personally and is available through donations from abroad.
New details about the Trump Foundation, which only Trump uses
Whether Trump will be president despite all the predictions, will decide in a few days. In the race for the title "Benefactor of the year" he should have now exited. The Washington Post published on Saturday more details on the donation fund of the real estate entrepreneur.
The fact that the candidate used the "Trump Foundation" extensively to support his own purposes has long been known. Now the world also learns that the foundation's largest gift was spent on the renovation of a well at 264,631 dollars. The fountain is in front of the Plaza Hotel in New York, which belonged to Donald Trump.
In further anecdotes from the nineties, the witnesses report how Trump appeared unannounced at a gala for children suffering from AIDS and who took the stage alongside other donors. Without donating a cent.
In a school in the Bronx district of New York City, Trump was a "rector for a day", when the chess team collected just 5000 dollars for a tournament trip. Trump symbolically presented a false one-million-dollar bill with great enthusiasm. At the end of the day, he left $ 200 in cash before he drove away in his limousine.
The 2016 election campaign will run until 8 November.
