Comey admitted that his decision to announce the reopening of the email investigation just days before the election might have been influenced by polls that predicted I would win. He suggested he might have viewed things differently had the race appeared closer. That wasn’t his call. It shouldn’t have been anybody’s. He substituted his “political” judgment for well-established standards of fairness. His actions changed the outcome—and history. As the leading statistician Nate Silver reaffirmed this summer, “it’s extremely likely that the Comey letter and the subsequent media coverage of it
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