Trump praises FBI's return to Clinton email investigation: 'This is bigger than Watergate'

Donald Trump praised the FBI's decision to reopen its investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, calling it "brave" and a chance for the bureau to "right the horrible mistake that they have made."

"We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office," Trump declared to his audience in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Trump joked, "With that being said, the rest of my speech is going to be so boring. Should I even make the rest of my speech?" But he continued to return to the topic, saying, "I think [the FBI is] going to right the ship, folks, I think they're going to right the ship." He then declared: "This is bigger than Watergate."

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Trump claimed he had only been told the news 10 minutes before taking the stage. Clinton, meanwhile, was on a plane en route to Iowa "with no wi-fi for the last two hours," Politico reports, when the news broke.