The head of the FBI said on Friday the agency would investigate additional emails that have surfaced related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server to determine whether they contain classified information, adding that it is unclear how significant the new materials may be.
In a letter to key Republicans committee chairmen in the House of Representatives, FBI Director Comey said that he “cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work.”
Wall Street stocks took a sudden turn lower Friday on news that the FBI had reopened the probe.
Near 1730 GMT, the S&P 500 was down 0.3 percent at 2,127.70 after hitting a session high of 2,140.72 shortly before the news broke.
Republican Donald Trump triumphantly welcomed the FBI’s decision to reopen the probe, saying “perhaps finally, justice will be done.”
“Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale that we have never seen before,” he told cheering supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, who chanted “Lock her up!”
“I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the Department of Justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made” in closing their initial investigation without filing any charges against the Democrat, he said. (Reuters)
