Trump says

Comey has
restored
reputation by
revisiting probe;
Clinton debuts
new Daisy ad
At a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 31,
Republican presidential candidate Donald
Trump thanked Hillary Clinton's top aide
Huma Abedin and her husband Anthony
Weiner while talking about the FBI
investigation in Clinton's private email
server.

I really disagreed with him, over that

earlier decision, Trump said. I was not his
fan. But what he did brought back his
reputation. Clinton was campaigning
in Ohio on Monday, while Trump was
in Michigan. Clintons efforts in Ohio are
part of a strategy to provide her several
paths to an electoral college victory the
simplest of which would be to win Florida.
Clinton spent the weekend campaigning
in Florida, where some polls show Trump
leading.

By Armas Maria October 31 at 9:23

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Donald Trump

said FBI Director James B. Comey brought
back his reputation by revisiting the federal
investigation into Hillary Clintons State
Department emails, as the GOP presidential
nominee promised Monday to close the
chapter on the Clintons. It took a lot of

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guts for Comey to change course three

The Democratic presidential nominee hits

the road as Election Day nears.

months after ending the probe into whether

classified information was compromised,
Trump said.

Comey reignited a political firestorm when

he alerted select members of Congress on
Friday that FBI officials had detected a

batch of emails pertinent to the case during

an unrelated investigation.
People close to the situation have told The
Washington Post that the emails were found
on a computer belonging to disgraced
former congressman Anthony Weiner, who
is under investigation for allegedly
exchanging lewd messages with a 15-yearold girl. Weiner is the estranged husband of
Clinton campaign vice chairman Huma
Abedin. Clintons campaign pushed back
hard all weekend against Comeys decision.
Democrats demanded swift answers about
what Comey is looking for and why after
ending the investigation without charges in
July he chose to renew it less than two
weeks before Election Day. Democratic
senators asked for answers by the end of the
day Monday. Claiming momentum from the
FBI news, Trump said Clinton has only
herself to blame.

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Hillary is the one who sent and received
classified information on an insecure server,
putting the safety of the American people
under threat, Trump said. Hillary is the
one who lied to Congress under oath. Hillary
is the one who lied on so many different
occasions to the FBI.
Clinton denies that her email put the country
at risk and her campaign says she testified
truthfully. As Trumps audience laughed, he
crowed, thank you, Huma!,
mispronouncing the name as OO-ma.
Thank you Huma! And thank you Anthony
Weiner. When Trump first brought up
Clinton, the crowd began to loudly chant:
Lock her up! Lock her up! In the audience
was a woman dressed up in an orange prison
jumpsuit labeled Clinton.

Later in the afternoon, Trump is expected to

Clintons new ad features the same woman

hold a rally in Warren, a suburb of Detroit.

who, as a small girl, plucked petals from a

Monday evening, Trump is scheduled to

flower in the original Lyndon Johnson one,

return to New York. On Tuesday, he will

which was aimed at Republican presidential

travel to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and to

nominee Barry Goldwater. The new one

North Carolina on Thursday. Trumps staff

returns to a frequent Clinton theme this year

has yet to publicly confirm the rest of his

the claim that Trump is reckless and unfit

schedule for the week. In an event scheduled

to be commander in chief. The national

for Monday afternoon at Kent State

security comparison has been one of

University, Clinton planned to deliver a

Clintons strongest advantages over the

speech that will make the case that Trump is

Republican businessman in an election she

a clear danger to our national security, an

remains favored to win.

aide said. As she has in past addresses,

Clintons goal at rallies Monday near

Clinton plans to use Trumps own words,

Cleveland and in Cincinnati is to keep up

drawing on his past praise for Russian

enthusiasm among Democrats and

President Vladimir Putin and derogatory

encourage more early voting this week.

statements about traditional U.S. allies, the

Former president Bill Clinton

aide said.

campaigned for his wife in Cleveland

over the weekend, and President Obama is

Plans call for Clinton to be introduced by

due in Columbus on Tuesday.

Bruce Blair, a former U.S. Air Force

Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile

Trump leads Clinton in Ohio by 1.3

control officer. Blair previously appeared in

percentage points in the RealClearPolitics

a TV ad for the campaign that seeks to make

average of recent polls. That is within the

the case that Trump is too erratic to be in

margin of error, meaning the race is

control of the countrys nuclear arsenal.

effectively tied. On Sunday night, the FBI

Clinton opened the last full week of

obtained a warrant to review the emails,

campaigning Monday with a television

which one official said include a significant

advertisement revisiting the famous 1964

number of messages associated with Clinton

Daisy ad about nuclear weapons, an

and Abedin. In his letter to Congress,

attempt to shift the presidential election back

Comey said that whether the emails provide

to a comparison with Donald Trump after a

any new information to the Clinton

renewed FBI inquiry roiled her campaign.

investigation had yet to be determined, but

Democrats worry that the news could sway

said during an event in Wilton Manors.

the election.

There's a lot of noise and distraction, but it

really comes down to what kind of future we

Clinton on Sunday made no direct mention

want.

of the FBI controversy, but on several

occasions she seemed to allude to it during
campaign stops in Florida. I want you to
know, I am focused on one thing: you, the
problems that keep you up at night, Clinton

Wagner reported from Kent, Ohio