We're 11 days out from the Election Day 2020.
11 days before the 2016 election, James Comey sent a letter to Congress about the re-opening of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. (1/4)
11 days before the 2016 election, James Comey sent a letter to Congress about the re-opening of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. (1/4)
The nonpartisan DOJ Inspector General later found that Comey committed a "serious error of judgment" that violated "longstanding Department practice." Indeed, Comey broke DOJ's written rules and its unwritten but widely observed norms (2/4)
There’s no way to know for sure, but the analytics whizzes at @FiveThirtyEight concluded that Comey’s announcement “probably cost Clinton the election.” (3/4)
fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-c…
fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-c…
So I take two lessons:
(1) Things can change awfully quickly in these high-stakes last few days, and
(2) Be very, very skeptical of purported bombshell announcements, or anything that comes out of DOJ during or right before an election. (4/4)
(1) Things can change awfully quickly in these high-stakes last few days, and
(2) Be very, very skeptical of purported bombshell announcements, or anything that comes out of DOJ during or right before an election. (4/4)
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