Hillary Clinton blames FBI email investigation for her election loss to Donald Trump

Donald Trump said in no uncertain terms that he believed the US election was rigged. If he had lost, he would have almost certainly contested the result, making claims of vote influencing, media bias and who knows what else.

But the reality is that Trump won, and this means that it is Hillary Clinton who is left pointing the finger of blame for losing. Unsurprisingly, it's the FBI that finds itself named as being responsible, with Clinton referring to letters from FBI director James Comey relating to the investigation into her use of a personal email server as the reason for her loss.

Clinton is reported to have directly blamed Comey's letters to congress for her inability to beat Trump in this week's election. As reported by Politico, Clinton claims that the re-opening of the FBI investigation caused irreparable damaged which ultimately cost her the election.

Comey had been criticized -- and not just by the Clinton camp -- for seeming to interfere with the election so close to voting day, so it is little surprise that the criticism continue after the election. Clinton, who has not really been seen since election night, believes that the letters about investigating her spurred Trump supporters into voting, pushing her opponent over the line.

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