Axelrod: ‘Fair Game’ For GOP To Use FBI Comments To ‘Question’ Clinton

General Election 2015 campaign - April 18h. File photo dated 15/5/2014 of Labour Party leader Ed Miliband's American election guru David Axelrod who has said that Tory attacks on Miliband and his relationship with hi... General Election 2015 campaign - April 18h. File photo dated 15/5/2014 of Labour Party leader Ed Miliband's American election guru David Axelrod who has said that Tory attacks on Miliband and his relationship with his brother have obviously failed. Issue date: Saturday April 18, 2015. Axelrod said the speed with which the Tory "back stabbing" attack has been dropped demonstrated it was a flawed tactic. See PA story ELECTION Labour Axelrod. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire URN:22761525 MORE LESS
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David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to President Obama, on Tuesday said that it’s fair for Republicans to use FBI Director James Comey’s comment that Hillary Clinton was “careless” with classified information against the former secretary of state during the presidential campaign.

“It is fair game for Republicans to question Hillary Clinton based on the words of the FBI director,” Axelrod said on CNN shortly after Comey announced that the FBI does not recommend bringing charges against Clinton.

Axelrod noted that Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer focused on what the FBI’s findings show about Clinton’s judgement.

“Sean Spicer took the words of the FBI director and used them as you would expect the opposition to use them and honed in on what Comey called the carelessness and recklessness and so on. That’s to be expected,” Axelrod said.

He contrasted the RNC response with Donald Trump’s tweets reacting to the FBI’s recommendation. Trump declared that the “system is rigged” and compared the investigation to the case involving former CIA Director David Petraeus.

“I think it’s dangerous to do what Donald Trump did, which is to say the system is rigged,” Axelrod said on CNN.

He also said that Trump should not have compared Clinton to Petraeus.

“It’s not fair game to say, ‘Well, Petraeus’ — as Trump has said repeatedly — ‘Petraeus got in trouble for far less.’ General Petraeus gave classified information to his biographer with whom he was having a relationship knowingly, and he pled guilty to charges related to that,” Axelrod said. “What he did was far different than what the FBI director suggested. So to say she should have been treated the way he was, it’s just flat out wrong.”

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  1. Hillary will respond in true style, having had years of experience with the fright wing attacks

  2. To be fair, if Hillary had used top secret material to get into a woman’s pants, she probably should be charged with something.

  3. It’s also fair game to ask the Donald about ANY/ALL of his business dealings if he doesn’t want to talk about them.

  4. Also, when the fuck will he release his tax returns?

  5. When they finally show he’s a billionaire.

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