In one of the closest presidential elections in American history, anything and everything could have been decisive. But we’ll probably never know what really was.
The letter about Hillary Clinton’s emails that the F.B.I. director James Comey sent to Congress in October 2016 is one of these potential factors. Mrs. Clinton herself told Fareed Zakaria on CNN last fall that she “would have won but for Jim Comey’s letter on October 28th.”
But as the Department of Justice concluded its report into Mr. Comey’s handling of the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email server on Thursday, it is still unclear whether this letter cost her the presidency. CONT.
Nate Cohn, New York Times