US election 2016: Trump cries foul as FBI clears Clinton

Donald Trump has accused the FBI of impropriety after it once again said that Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges over her emails. The FBI director said a fresh inquiry into the Democratic candidates communications found nothing to change the bureaus 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 Trump.Mrs Clinton used a private email server when she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 in the Obama administration. The Republican nominee cried foul after learning about the law enforcement bureaus decision.At a rally in the Detroit suburbs, 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 shes being protected by a rigged system. Its a totally rigged system. Ive 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 its up to the American people to deliver justice at the ballot box on 8 November. While Mrs Clinton herself did not address the FBI directors 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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US election 2016: Trump cries foul as FBI clears Clinton