FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Before Vote

Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by downandout on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:49PM (#12819422)

Unless an indictment comes down before Election Day, I think it's probably too late for this to have any material impact. Most likely Clinton voters aren't actually Clinton voters - they are anti-Trump voters. An indictment prior to the election would change things, but that will not happen. Clinton has almost no chance of losing.

Once she wins, she will then either short circuit the investigation by forcing Comey and anyone else associated with it to resign, or she will actually be indicted and then she will pardon herself. For the record I believe that both of the candidates are despicable human beings and either one will make the worst President I have ever had in my lifetime, but we are almost certainly stuck with Clinton for at least the next four years.

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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by swissoak on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:51PM (#12819444)

I think the more likely situation is that Obama pardons her some time after election day.

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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by arzt on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:13PM (#12819652)

Is their a historical precedent for something like this? (ie sitting president pardons incoming president?)

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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by AnimalMuppet on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:55PM (#12820599)

Not quite. There is precedent for the new president pardoning the outgoing president, though - Ford pardoned Nixon for anything and everything Nixon had done that was illegal during his term in office. That closed the book on Watergate, but it arguably cost Ford the election to Carter.

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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by swissoak on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:23PM (#12819745)

I don't believe so, but we have plenty of shitty precedents with Obama's 8 years.

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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by chris11 on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:19PM (#12820815)

Yeah, I don't think that will happen. First, the previous report found no wrongdoing. Second, I'm sure Hillary will say that she did not break the law (which is so far supported by the FBI investiagtion unless these new emails change things). And third, Clinton's accuser's don't always care about how accurate their accusations are and Obama's pardon will just give them evidence that they were right. I don't see a pardon needed or useful.

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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by perseusprime11 on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:58PM (#12819490)

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” ― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by return0 on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:00PM (#12819515)

> voters aren't actually Clinton voters - they are anti-Trump voters

Has any poll looked into this ?

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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by downandout on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:18PM (#12819703)

"If it weren't for Trump, in fact, Clinton would be the most unpopular major-party presidential nominee in modern American history."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/31/a-...

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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by grzm on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:02PM (#12819533)

This article from Five Thirty Eight addresses this:

"Clinton Voters Aren’t Just Voting Against Trump"

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clinton-voters-arent-jus...

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