Hillary Clinton is in the news again.
David Harsanyi writes:
Hillary Clinton was back earlier this week, taking “absolute personal responsibility” by blaming Russia, FBI Director James Comey and misogyny for her second presidential election loss. If the election had taken place on Oct. 27, Clinton maintained, she’d be president.
Perhaps if we were to all live in a vacuum where the electorate ignored everything the Democratic Party’s flawed nominee said and did (and tried to hide), she would be in the White House—although even that’s debatable.
Clinton’s counterfactual tale about the infamous Comey letter has been a security blanket for many Democrats. But, as luck would have it, the FBI director was testifying in front of a Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, and he reminded us of some factors that Clinton ignored. That’s because even if we concede that Comey’s letter to Congress helped sink Clinton, Clinton deserved that letter and Comey had no choice but to send it.
In essence, what many Democrats have been arguing for the past six months is that Comey should have actively buried evidence that was pertinent to an ongoing congressional investigation—one that incidentally turned up plenty of potential wrongdoing—because it might hurt their preferred candidate’s chances.
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