Even Corey Lewandowski thinks Trump won because of FBI Director James Comey
Donald Trump's former campaign manager turned CNN commentator turned likely political appointee Corey Lewandowski thinks he knows why Trump won the election, The Telegraph reports. And it isn't exactly because Trump outplayed Hillary Clinton.
"With 11 days to go [before the election], something amazing happened," Lewandowski told Oxford Union's debating society Wednesday evening, referring to FBI Director James Comey's decision to announce the bureau was renewing its probe into Clinton's emails. "What that did was remind people that there are two different rules in Washington — those of the elites and the privileged, and those for everybody else. When Comey moved forward with that investigation ... it allowed the [Trump] campaign a little spring in their step, and for them to redouble their efforts."
Analysts have been divided on how big a role the Comey investigation actually played in Clinton losing the election. Nevertheless, Lewandowski called Americans "very smart" to choose Trump on Election Day.
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