Hillary Clinton Blames James Comey and ‘The Stunt He Pulled 10 Days Before the Election’ For 2016 Defeat

In the sit-down interview that aired today on “Sunday Today,” failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told Willie Geist that Jim Comey is to blame for her defeat in that election.

“I do think but for Jim Comey and the stunt he pulled 10 days before the election I would have won,” Clinton claimed.

About Trump, Clinton continued, “I feel terrible about not stopping him and the people around him, but I feel like now everyone can see for themselves what kind of leader he is.”

“Clearly, there were people who liked what they saw, despite what I see as the real dangers to our country, they turned out and voted for him,” Clinton acknowledged.

Taking a shot at new voting integrity laws and the Electoral College, Clinton added, “He’s trying to get it set up so that happens again for him, even if he loses as he did twice the popular vote.”

Fivethirtyeight.com published an article in May 2017 titled, “The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election. So why won’t the media admit as much?”

The article claimed that “Hillary Clinton would probably be president if FBI Director James Comey had not sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28. “

“The letter, which said the FBI had ‘learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation’ into the private email server that Clinton used as secretary of state, upended the news cycle and soon halved Clinton’s lead in the polls, imperiling her position in the Electoral College,” the article explained.

Nate Silver, the article’s author asserted, “The impact of Comey’s letter is comparatively easy to quantify, by contrast. At a maximum, it might have shifted the race by 3 or 4 percentage points toward Donald Trump, swinging Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Florida to him, perhaps along with North Carolina and Arizona. At a minimum, its impact might have been only a percentage point or so. Still, because Clinton lost Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by less than 1 point, the letter was probably enough to change the outcome of the Electoral College.”

Clinton clearly believes that the letter had an impact on her ability to win the election as well and even though Comey was a driving force against Trump early on in his presidency, she still threw him under the bus.