October 30, 2016
Hillary's nightmare scenario: Weiner's laptop holds 650,000 emails, thousands of them from Clinton's private server, and a search will take WEEKS. Democrat faces an ongoing FBI probe even if she's elected
FBI agents have said it could take weeks to go through Weiner's emails
They have found 650,000 in total, thousands of which could be related to the investigation into her private server
It will take weeks for them to go through the mass of correspondences
Means Clinton could still be subject of en FBI probe if elected president
A jubilant Trump thanked Weiner for preserving the emails in a speech
Told fans in Las Vegas it showed the Clintons had poor judgement
The latest poll says the gap between Trump and Clinton is just one point
A third of voters said the FBI's announcement has affected their support
Clinton's friends and allies are urging her to distance herself from Abedin
By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com
The renewed FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified material could take weeks because agents have found 650,000 emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
Weiner, the disgraced husband of Hillary's right-hand woman Huma Abedin, had his laptop seized in September after DailyMail.com exposed his sexting of a 15-year-old girl.
On Sunday, it was revealed that thousands of the messages in the archive that stretches back years could be from Clinton's controversial private server.
The sheer volume of the data means it will take agents until well past the election to assess if any contain classified information, leaving Clinton with the prospect of facing an ongoing investigation even if she is elected president.
The Democratic candidate already shows signs of slipping in the polls after a ABC News/Washington Post tracker poll revealed Trump was just one point behind. That's an 11 point change since last week.
Complicating matters, the FBI still has not obtained the proper warrant to search for emails for classified information, despite realizing they existed early October.
The scandal caused by FBI director James Comey's shock announcement on Friday ago has continued to grow as questions mount over right-hand woman Abedin's future on the Clinton campaign.
Abedin has reportedly pleaded ignorance about how the emails ended up on her husband Weiner's laptop.
Even worse for her situation, Abedin swore under oath while testifying in a lawsuit brought against the State Department by Judicial Watch that she had handed over all of her devices that could hold emails relevant to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. If she’s found to have lied she could face up to five years in jail.
Donald Trump delivered a swift kick to disgraced former Democratic congressman Weiner on Sunday, thanking him for preserving the emails that could bring Clinton down.
The Republican presidential nominee told a more than 7,000 people packed into a Las Vegas casino ballroom that be believes the FBI has recovered some of Clinton's 33,000 deleted emails.
'I have a feeling they just found a lot of them,' he said, before calling out the name of Weiner's estranged wife Huma Abedin.
'Huma! They just found a lot of them!' he boomed. 'We never thought we were going to say "Thank you" to Anthony Weiner!'
A day earlier in Arizona, the real estate billionaire used the 'pervert' Weiner's proximity to power as Exhibit A in his case that the Clintons have poor judgment and can't be trusted with the levers of power.
'As Podesta said, she's got bad instincts,' he said, quoting Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's stinging admission in a hacked email published by the WikiLeaks anti-privacy group.
The latest revelations leaves the Clinton campaign facing disaster after FBI director James Comey announced their discovery had led him to reopen the investigation into Clinton with 11 days until the election.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll taken after Comey's announcement shows Trump is just one point behind Clinton, with 45 percent support to her 46 percent.
Last week, Clinton was up 12 points, meaning that she lost a double-digit lead in a week's time. A third of the likely voters polled said they were less likely to cast a vote for Clinton because of this additional email probe.
On Sunday, CNN initially reported that her attorneys met with representatives from the Justice Department and the FBI as they looked to get a search warrant that would allow them to examine all of the emails on Weiner's laptop - and not just those related to the sexting investigation.
But they later corrected the story, instead saying that the Justice Department were seeking approval for the new warrant.
Government lawyers have not approached Abedin's camp, but could do so in the coming days.
Agents from the FBI New York field office stumbled on what they thought were pertinent emails when they were searching the laptop during their sexting investigation.
Many, reports suggests, were from the accounts of Ms. Abedin, according to people familiar with the matter.
They stopped the search and immediately called in Andrew McCabe, the bureau’s second-in-command, the Wall Street Journal reported. The laptop hasn't previously been investigated as part of the Clinton probe.
Now, officials are looking for a different search warrant.
They have a subpoena for Weiner's laptop, but it only relates to his emails, not Abedin's. So they would need new approval to broaden their search.
In their initial review of the laptop, agents reportedly found metadata showing many messages, apparently in the thousands, were either sent to or from the private email server at Clinton’s home.
There is a chance some of the emails could be duplicates of those they have already seen, but investigators could also find it is a trove of messages Clinton deleted from her server.
Clinton’s aides are reportedly urging her to distance herself from Abedin, who has been her aide for more than a decade and who she regards as almost a daughter, according to the New York Times.
Abedin told colleagues she has no idea how the emails ended up on her husband's computer, and insists she rarely used it.The Washington Post also reported that her lawyers didn't hand over the device because they didn't think it contained any of her emails.
On Sunday morning, Clinton arrived at Fado’s, an Irish pub in downtown Miami, to greet about 40 Democrats attending what the campaign said was an early voting brunch sponsored by two local Democratic groups, the Miami-Dade Young Democrats and the Miami Downtown Democrats.
She briefly spoke to the crowd, but did not mention Abedin, or the latest scandal that has engulfed the campaign.
Also on Sunday, New York Times bestseller Ed Klein wrote in an article for DailyMail.com that Comey's decision to revive the investigation of Clinton's email server came after he could no longer resist mounting pressure by mutinous agents in the FBI, including some of his top deputies, according to a source close to the embattled FBI director.
'The atmosphere at the FBI has been toxic ever since Jim announced last July that he wouldn't recommend an indictment against Hillary,' said the source, a close friend who has known Comey for nearly two decades, shares family outings with him, and accompanies him to Catholic mass every week.
'Some people, including department heads, stopped talking to Jim, and even ignored his greetings when they passed him in the hall,' said the source. 'They felt that he betrayed them and brought disgrace on the bureau by letting Hillary off with a slap on the wrist.'
According to the source, Comey fretted over the problem for months and discussed it at great length with his wife, Patrice.
He told his wife that he was depressed by the stack of resignation letters piling up on his desk from disaffected agents. The letters reminded him every day that morale in the FBI had hit rock bottom.
On Saturday night, Clinton looked to crank up her celebrity appeal by appearing alongside Jennifer Lopez on stage in downtown Miami.
Abedin missed the star-studded concert, and instead remained holed up in her New York City apartment on Saturday night, a day after her husband's sexting of a 15-year-old girl, which was exposed by DailyMail.com, led the FBI to sensationally reopen its investigation into Clinton's emails.
She could be seen inside her Gramercy Park apartment in loungewear as she spent time with her mother and sister.
Clinton's aides have gone to war with Comey for his 'unprecedented and deeply troubling' decision.'
Weiner's sexting investigation is a serious blow to Clinton's campaign in the tightening presidential race.
Reports say agents found thousands of emails on the shared laptop which merit further investigation.
When Clinton was Secretary of State, Abedin had email accounts on the State Department server, Hillary's controversial private server and Yahoo.
Conflicting reports suggest the emails could either have been sent from Abedin to Clinton, forwarded between Abedin's accounts so she could more easily print them off, or duplicates of emails already investigated by the FBI earlier this year.
As she stayed off the campaign trail in one of the campaign’s critical final days, Abedin may have to contend with some of her sworn statements in a Judicial Watch lawsuit, when she got asked how she went about searching for records she turned over to the State Department.
‘I looked for all the devices that may have any of my State Department work on it and returned — returned — gave them to my attorneys for them to review for all relevant documents. And gave them devices and paper,’ Abedin said.
Asked what devices she handed over, Abedin replied: ‘If memory serves me correctly, it was two laptops, a BlackBerry, and some files that I found in my apartment, Abedin said.
The devices were requested as part of a lawsuit by the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch and were later reviewed by the FBI.
Abedin then told Judicial Watch attorney Ramona Cotca that she was 'not involved in the process' of selecting what documents on her devices would be given to the State Department.
She said she asked her attorneys 'to find whatever they thought was relevant and appropriate, whatever was their determination as to what was a federal record'.
'And they did,' she added. 'They turned the materials in, and I know they did.'
Abedin, one of Clinton's most trusted aides, said she conducted 'the majority' of her work at her computer and Blackberry but also gave her attorneys the login and password to her personal 'Clintonmail.com' account.
She said she relied on her State Department email for the 'vast majority' of her work, but admitted there were occasions she used the Clintonmail.com account for 'State-related matters'.
While Abedin remained in New York, Clinton traveled without her to Daytona Beach, Florida, where she took her war against Comey right to her own supporters during a rally.
'If you're like me, you probably have a few questions about it,' Clinton told a crowd of about 900 at a community center. 'It is pretty strange. It's pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information, right before an election,' Clinton said.
The crowd booed at the first mention of the FBI issue.
'In fact, it's not just strange it's unprecedented and it's deeply troubling,' Clinton said.
Clinton had first gone after Comey on Friday in a surprise press conference just hours after the news broke, just days before the November 8 election.
'Voters deserve to get full and complete facts. And so we call on Director Comey to explain everything right away,' she said, calling out Comey by name.
She urged Comey to 'put it all out on the table.'
Then she trained her fire on Donald Trump, whom she said was 'already making up lies,' on a day Trump took the issue and ran with it at his own rallies, speculating about Clinton, the Justice Department, Abedin, and Weiner, whom he termed a 'sleaze.'
'He's doing his best to confuse, mislead and discourage the American people,' Clinton said. 'I think it's time for Donald Trump to stop fear-mongering.'
Clinton flew to Daytona Beach and campaigned in Volusia County as part of her all-out effort to stop Trump in a must-win state for him – but was compelled to address the controversy that has upended her campaign.
Mitt Romney won the county in 2012, though it was in the Democratic column for several previous elections.
Meanwhile, as the controversy swirls, Clinton continues to go about the business of retail politics.
When she landed in Daytona Beach, a small group greeted her with a campaign sign.
Ditching protocol, Clinton walked up to them, and greeted and shook hands with the entire group.
Later, went to a tailgate party with students at Bethune-Cookman University.
Clinton took the stage at the event and declared: 'I just want to encourage all the students who are here today, plus all the alumni who are here… to get out and vote early.'
Later, she went to the 50 yard line of Daytona's Municipal Stadium.
'This election is about education, it's about the future of the… historically black colleges and universities, and I promise you I will do my very best to build on the progress, the progress of President Obama,' she said to cheers.
'This election is one of the most important in our country's history because everything you care about, everything I care about is really on the ballot and we've got to demonstrate that we're going to build a future where the economy works for everybody, not just those at the top,' she said.
'I promise you that I will be your partner, I will work with you, I will work for you, every single day in the White House, and we're going to prove once and for all that love trumps hate,' she said.
The Clinton campaign has suggested that the new-found emails are duplicates, but the law enforcement source said it's highly unlikely that all of them are.
When news emerged of the email investigation being reopened, a campaign aide said that Clinton 'took the news like a champ. We always knew there'd be a another surprise in the election.
'She's in a very good frame of mind about it. Pretty happy warrior and is quite confident we'll be able to deal with it.'
Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, teed off on the lawman in a blistering press call on Saturday.
He said Comey's move to reexamine Clinton emails was 'long on innuendo and short on facts,' calling the reporting on the stunning developments in the presidential race 'overblown.'
'Despite initial reporting the letter amounted to a quote unquote reopening of the investigation … it seems that that is not at all the case,' fumed Podesta on a campaign press call with reporters.
Podesta blasted House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz of Utah, saying, 'This is someone who has already promised to launch years of new Hillary Clinton investigations when she's president.'
He referenced an LA Times report that emails the FBI was looking at were not to or from Clinton.
'It's had to see how this amounts to anything,' Podesta said, stressing the last minute nature of the campaign bombshell.
'Comey has not been forthcoming with the facts,' Podesta blustered. 'What little told us: hard to understand why this was warranted at all.'
Podesta said they are 'standing' behind Abedin, following the latest revelation into the Clinton email scandal.
'Huma completely and voluntarily complied with and cooperated with the investigation,' Podesta said.
'She sat for a hours long interview. She turned over and went through with her lawyers all of the emails that might possibly be relevant and turned them over to the state department and investigators.
'There's absolutely nothing she's done that we think calls into question anything that she's done.
'She's been fully cooperating and we of course stand behind her.'
Campaign manager Robby Mook said the stunning FBI story is actually ginning up Clinton supporters.
'We're not just seeing this in our offices on the ground but also in the online space as well,' he said.
'We already had momentum and wind behind our back going into yesterday this has only increased the momentum that we're feeling among our activists on the ground.'
Republican Donald Trump had a field day with the latest developments as he campaigned out west.
'Her criminal action was willful, deliberate, intentional and purposeful,' Trump said in an agricultural event center in Golden, Colorado. 'Hillary set up an illegal server for the obvious purpose of shielding her criminal conduct from public disclosure and exposure.'
Then he went after Abedin's spouse, disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner, calling him 'a major, major, major sleaze.'
'I wonder, is she going to keep Huma? Huma's been a problem,' Trump said.
'I wonder if Huma's going to stay there. And I hope they haven't given Huma immunity.'
'She knows the real story. She knows what's going on,' he said.
On Saturday, the Democratic presidential nominee boarded her campaign plane at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York.
Clinton, who smiled and waved to the cameras on the ground as she walked up the steps to get on the plane, is heading to campaign in Florida.
While on the plane, she was photographed speaking with members of her staff and seemed at ease.
During her press conference on Friday, Clinton called on the FBI to release whatever information it has about its restarted investigation of her email scandal 'without delay'.
And she said she did not know 'what to believe' regarding what she called 'rumors' that the new information came from Abedin's laptop – a device she reportedly shared with Weiner.
'We are 11 days out from perhaps the most important election of our lifetimes,' Clinton told reporters in a surprise press conference.
'The American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately.'
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