Clinton advisor John Podesta sent out an email over the weekend on FBI Director Comey’s letter to Congress on Friday about finding a “new” patch of possibly relevant emails on a computer shared by Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin. The confusion sown by that letter has, in Podesta’s words,
“opened the door to conspiracy theories, Republican attacks against Hillary, and a surge of fundraising for Trump and his team. So this bears repeating: There is no evidence of wrongdoing, no charge of wrongdoing, and no indication that any of this even involves Hillary.”
Podesta spectulates, as have others, that Director Comey took this “extraordinary” step, which the Justice Department criticized, “in part to reduce the pressure on his agency that Trump's campaign and his Republican Congressional allies has been building up), leading crowds in chants of "lock her up," and even saying Hillary should be in prison -- and if he won, he'd put her there.”
He continues…
“The facts be damned -- Trump's always shown a complete disregard for the truth. In spite of there being no new information, he's already raising money off the bizarre letter (he literally sent a text message asking for money within an hour of the story breaking!)...”
The email concludes by calling on Hillary supporters to “get her back.”
“You need to say you're not willing to let Trump bully or buy his way into the presidency, and you're not going to let anything stop us from making history.”