Election security

‘Comey best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton,’ Trump tweets

While speaking at a Women for Women International event in New York Tuesday, Hillary Clinton laid much of the blame for the election outcome on Russian hackers and the actions of FBI Director James B. Comey.

“If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president,” Clinton told moderator Christiane Amanpour. “I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off — and the evidence for that intervening event is, I think, compelling [and] persuasive.”

Many thought she was shirking responsibility for her role in her own campaign. Chief among her critics was President Trump, who quickly took to Twitter to call Clinton out.