The comments came from Obama during an off-the-record meeting with a reporter three days before Trump’s inauguration. This is all according to a transcript that Bloomberg News received. Obama stated that Clinton’s loss might have come down to several questionable choices by the former First Lady.
October 04, 2022
Obama stated that various things likely led to Clinton’s eventual loss. For example, he noted that Bill Clinton getting on a plane with an official investigating his wife was unwise. Obama also believes that Clinton’s private e-mail server was an issue and that James Comey announcing the opening of an investigation into the former First Lady just before the election also cost her significantly.
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There were many moments when people could have made different decisions that might have caused things to play out differently according to what former President Obama believed about the 2016 election.
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Bill Clinton’s decision to get on a plane with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in Phoenix was highly criticized at the time, and it was a story that made its rounds in the media. Obama cited this as another questionable decision made by the Clinton team at the time that might have proved decisive in a close election.
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Obama did go on to say that he believes that James Comey is a person of high moral character and that he does NOT think that he decided to announce the investigation days before the election based on political calculations. Instead, he feels this was an ill-informed and poor choice, but he doesn’t think it was done purely based on political choices.
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Obama said that Comey sees himself as serving the American people and values and that he likely made a choice based on those reasons. Requests for comments on this story were sent to former President Obama and the Clintons, but neither could be immediately reached for comment on this story.