FBI Director James Comey's announcement on Sunday that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton should not be criminally charged in connection to her email scandal will have "zero effect" politically, conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer told Fox News.
"This is technically a win for Secretary Clinton but politically, it probably has zero effect, or, if anything, a marginal net plus," Krauthammer said, explaining that the announcement came too late to help her.
"There's not enough time for this to be processed and for the exoneration, to the extent it is, to be sort of accepted and become part of the landscape," Krauthammer said.
"She lost 10 days [since the FBI's bombshell announcement it was reopening the case]… She has lost altitude everywhere and that accounts for the fact that there are so many swing states hanging in the balance.
"That was not so before his announcement . . . All the argument, all the case made against her in the 10 days are not erasable and they have had their effect," he added.
Krauthammer conceded that the latest announcement could "perhaps, stop the bleeding to some extent in some places, but at this point I don't think it has an effect of any real importance for the ultimate outcome."
He added that, in any case, the original FBI verdict in July was mixed for Clinton, because although Comey said there would be no criminal charges brought against her, it was also clear there the former secretary of state was grossly negligent in her handling of the private email server.
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