WATCH: Even Trump’s Campaign Manager Admits FBI Director Announcement on Clinton Emails Is Political
‘This Guy’s in a Tough Spot’
Hours after James Comey engaged in a stunning exhibition of political interference with a presidential election, Trump campaign director Kellyanne Conway appeared on MSNBC. Stunningly, she admitted the FBI Director’s decision to announce the Bureau is looking into emails it just found that might be related to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email was motivated by politics.
“All of the attacks now coming from camp Clinton, whether subtly or overtly toward FBI Director Comey are really misplaced,” Conway said. (Video above, relevant portion begins at the 2:00 mark.)
“This guy’s in a tough spot,” she continued. “Imagine if he had not come forward eleven days before the election and sat on this and then she was elected and then he has to come forward. We’re supposed to elect somebody who’s unqualified and unfit to be president and find out after the election that there’s more controversy swirling around her?”
In other words, Conway, as many on the left and many journalists are suggesting, believes that Director Comey made a political decision, made a decision to inform the public before any conclusions were able to made, before any investigation was made, into these newly-discovered emails.
He would not have been in a “tough spot” if he were ignoring the election, which he should be.
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The FBI is not supposed to make decisions based on elections, with the exception of doing everything it can to steer clear of them. It has a long-standing protocol to actually wait until after elections to release information that may contribute to voters’ decisions.
For example, when an elected official is under investigation, it’s not uncommon for the FBI to wait for the election to end before  recommending prosecution against them, so they are not perceived as engaging in politics.
The former spokesman for former Attorney General Eric Holder, Matthew Miller, “served as the Director of the Office of Public Affairs for the Department of Justice, leading the Department’s communications team,” according to his bio.
Here’s what he has to say about Director Comey’s remarks today:
This is such an inappropriate public disclosure by Comey. And sadly the latest in a long string of them. https://t.co/8MgrH9UKlR
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) October 28, 2016
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