House Speaker Paul Ryan said the FBI recommendation not to prosecute Clinton "defies explanation."
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioned Comey's integrity, although Cruz had voted to confirm him in 2013 to be FBI director. Comey, a Republican, was first appointed U.S. Attorney and then deputy attorney general during the Bush--Cheney administration.
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee who had spent much of the primaries calling Ted Cruz a liar, after Cruz dropped out of the race now threw venom on Clinton, innumerous times calling her a liar and a crook. Following the press conference, Trump said "the system is rigged . . . very unfair! As usual, bad judgment." He then launched an attack upon Lynch, stating, without evidence, "It's a bribe. . . The Attorney General is sitting there saying, 'If I get Hillary off the hook, I'm going to have four more years or eight more years. But if she loses, I'm out of a job.' It's a bribe. It's a disgrace." Trump also bellowed, continuing his campaign of shoving misinformation in front of the voters, that President Obama was part of a conspiracy to drop charges against Clinton.
The FBI's recommendation, said Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus, was "a glaring indictment of Hillary Clinton's complete lack of judgment, honesty, and preparedness to be our next commander-in-chief, and they confirm what we've long known: Hillary Clinton has spent the last 16 months looking into cameras deliberately lying to the American people."
The conservatives, especially Trump, will continue to push Benghazi and e-mails, no matter what the evidence shows, and will be looking for anything they can find that may lead to another scandal--and several million dollars to investigate it.
As far as Clinton is concerned, there have been many lessons from the Benghazi and e-mail scandals, but the major one is that a candidate can't allow the opposition to control the message, but must be open and, if wrong, apologize and correct a problem before it explodes.
[Dr. Brasch, an award-winning journalist, has covered government/politics for more than four decades. His latest book is Fracking America: Sacrificing Health and the Environment for Short-Term Economic Benefit .]
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