I’m not so sure that people are correctly reading what happened yesterday.
First, he spent most of the speech confirming that the FBI believes that she lied her (very fat) ass off throughout this entire episode. Second, he indicated that she DID break the law.
What deciding not to recommend an indictment did is:
1) It made sure that she’d be the Dem nominee;
2) It made sure that she won’t be going to jail (not yet);
3) It brought this entire series of sordid episodes into the public eye - most people are asleep and didn’t even know that she was being investigated.
4) It gave Trump lots of material for commercials.
Her being the Dem nominee is, of course, important to her. However, she is a terrible candidate. Having her be the nominee, doubling down on Obama policies, with this cloud of ethics and competence hanging over her...that doesn’t bode well for ANY candidate, let alone one running as THE establishment candidate in an anti-establishment year.
Remember, this is DC and this is politics - take NOTHING at face value.
Good post.
Hillary rode Air Force One to North Carolina with Obama the same day for a campaign stop. The optics would have been horrible if she had been indicted. There is no way in hell this would have been planned if the knew for certain that she would not be indicted. The lack of indictment is a function of Obama. I just do not know how he did it.