The FBI on Wednesday said it had found no evidence about President Trump Donald John TrumpKoch group pours nearly M into ads to boost three GOP Senate candidates Gillum wins stunner and other takeaways from Arizona, Florida McSally prevails in nasty Arizona GOP Senate primary MORE's claim that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonKirkpatrick makes comeback by winning Arizona Democratic House primary Rep. Mast wins GOP nod after facing two primary challengers Former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala wins Democratic House primary in Florida MORE's private email server was compromised by hackers working for the Chinese government.
In a brief statement, the bureau said: “The FBI has not found any evidence the servers were compromised.”
The statement follows the president's tweets earlier Wednesday claiming, without evidence, that Clinton's emails had been hacked by China.
"Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone!" Trump tweeted.
Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2018
Trump had earlier sent another tweet with the claim.
"Report just out: “China hacked Hillary Clinton’s private Email Server.” Are they sure it wasn’t Russia (just kidding!)? What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classified information!," Trump said.
Report just out: “China hacked Hillary Clinton’s private Email Server.” Are they sure it wasn’t Russia (just kidding!)? What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classified information! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2018
It was not immediately clear which report Trump was referencing. The Washington Post reported that the tweets had come after a Daily Caller story that cited anonymous law enforcement sources with the claim.
That Daily Caller story said that the intelligence community's inspector general had found that a copy of every email on the server "was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China."
Trump had said during the 2016 presidential race that he would seek a new investigation of Clinton if elected, but later walked back that claim.
China's foreign ministry denied the claims, Reuters reported
"This isn’t the first time we’ve heard similar kinds of allegations,” spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing, according to Reuters.
“China is a staunch defender of cybersecurity. We firmly oppose and crack down on any forms of internet attacks and the stealing of secrets,” she added.
NotMrMike on August 29th, 2018 at 20:16 UTC »
Why is the leader of a country constantly at odds with the countrys own intelligence agency? It's beyond moronic.
Kulban on August 29th, 2018 at 18:24 UTC »
I don't care who you're rooting for. Can we all at least agree that no president should ever trust television over their own intelligence advisers?
SirLenzalot on August 29th, 2018 at 18:24 UTC »
And at the same time some GOP don't believe in the FBI anyway.