Hillary Clinton has blamed FBI director James Comey and Russian interference for her defeat in the last year’s presidential elections, saying they “scared off” voters and deprived her of an otherwise expected victory. The former Democratic presidential nominee, speaking during a charity luncheon, said she took “personal responsibility” for her loss to Donald Trump in the presidential race. In her most detailed comments about her defeat since the shock result last year, Mr. Clinton blamed Russian interference in the U.S. election and the release of a letter by Mr. Comey pertaining to the investigation into her emails just before the polls, saying such factors deprived her of an otherwise expected victory. “If the [presidential] election had been on October 27th, I’d be your President. And it wasn’t, it was on October 28th and there was just a lot of funny business going on around that,” Ms. Clinton told CNN in an interview at Women for Women International Forum organised in New York.

Source: The Hindu May 04, 2017 00:35 UTC