By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Hillary Clinton, in a rare public appearance, said she would be president if not for FBI Director James Comey’s decision to release information to Congress about reopening the bureau’s investigation into her use of a private email server.
Comey’s Oct. 28 letter to Congress reversed her momentum going into the Nov. 8 election, Clinton told a CNN anchor at a Women for Women International event in New York.
Clinton also blamed Russian hackers, which the FBI is investigating.
“If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president,” Clinton told CNN moderator Christiane Amanpour.
Clinton added: “I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off — and the evidence for that intervening event is, I think, compelling (and) persuasive.”
Still, Clinton said she takes “absolute personal responsibility” for failing to win the election but continued to blame external forces, including “misogyny.”
Just two days before the election, Comey notified Congress that no new evidence was found to conclude that Clinton should face criminal charges.
