Law enforcement

FBI Director James Comey 'distrusted former Attorney General Loretta Lynch because she tried to play down the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails'

FBI Director James Comey distrusted former Attorney General Loretta Lynch because he believed she helped play down the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private server, according to a new report. 

Comey ended up plunging the FBI into the center of the 2016 presidential election when he reopened the investigation into Clinton's emails just weeks before the election.

The New York Times revealed that Comey handled the investigations into Clinton and Donald Trump, very differently.

According to several government officials, Comey rewrote the script when it came down to the Clinton case, mainly because the FBI believed she would win the election and feared they would be accused of helping her. 

In Trump's case, Comey did everything by the book, with the FBI's traditional secrecy, according to the Times.