Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Just when it looked like Hillary Clinton was poised to win the 2016 election, the FBI has thrown a gamechanger into the mix. On Friday, FBI Director James Comey announced that his agency has discovered new emails related to Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information that they had not previously seen. According to the Associated Press, the newly discovered emails “did not come from her private server”, but instead were found when the FBI started going through electronic devices that belonged to top Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband Anthony Weiner. The FBI has been looking into messages of a sexual nature that Weiner had exchanged with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina, and that is why they originally seized those electronic devices. According to the Washington Post, the “emails were found on a computer used jointly by both Weiner and his wife, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, according to a person with knowledge of the inquiry”, and according to some reports there may be “potentially thousands” of emails on the computer that the FBI did not have access to previously. Even though there are less than two weeks to go until election day, this scandal has the potential to possibly force Clinton out of the race, and if that happens could Barack Obama delay or suspend the election until a replacement candidate can be found?
Let’s take this one step at a time. On Friday, financial markets tanked when reports of these new Clinton emails hit the wires. The following comes from CNN…
After recommending earlier this year that the Department of Justice not press charges against the former secretary of state, Comey said in a letter to eight congressional committee chairmen that investigators are examining newly discovered emails that “appear to be pertinent” to the email probe.
“In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation,” Comey wrote the chairmen. “I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.”
At this point, we do not know what is contained in these emails. But without a doubt Huma Abedin is Hillary Clinton’s closest confidant, and I have always felt that she was Clinton’s Achilles heel. Journalist Carl Bernstein (of Watergate fame) is fully convinced that the FBI would have never made this move unless something significant had already been discovered…
We don’t know what this means yet except that it’s a real bombshell. And it is unthinkable that the Director of the FBI would take this action lightly, that he would put this letter forth to the Congress of the United States saying there is more information out there about classified e-mails and call it to the attention of congress unless it was something requiring serious investigation. So that’s where we are…
Is it a certainty that we won’t learn before the election? I’m not sure it’s a certainty we won’t learn before the election.
One thing is, it’s possible that Hillary Clinton might want to on her own initiative talk to the FBI and find out what she can, and if she chooses to let the American people know what she thinks or knows is going on. People need to hear from her…
If the FBI has indeed found something explosive, would they actually charge her with a crime right before the election?
It is possible, but we also have to remember that government agencies (including the FBI) tend to move very, very slowly. If there are thousands of emails, it is going to take quite a while to sift through them all. And of course Barack Obama has lots of ways that he could influence, delay or even shut down the investigation.
So those that are counting on this to be the miracle that Donald Trump needs should not count their chickens before they hatch.
But if Hillary Clinton were to be forced out of the race by this FBI investigation, the Democrats would have to decide on a new candidate, and that would take time. The following is from a U.S. News & World Report article that examined what would happen if one of the candidates was forced out of the race for some reason…
If Clinton were to fall off the ticket, Democratic National Committee members would gather to vote on a replacement. DNC members acted as superdelegates during this year’s primary and overwhelmingly backed Clinton over boat-rocking socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
DNC spokesman Mark Paustenbach says there currently are 445 committee members – a number that changes over time and is guided by the group’s bylaws, which give membership to specific officeholders and party leaders and hold 200 spots for selection by states, along with an optional 75 slots DNC members can choose to fill.
But the party rules for replacing a presidential nominee merely specify that a majority of members must be present at a special meeting called by the committee chairman. The meeting would follow procedures set by the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee and proxy voting would not be allowed.
It would be extremely challenging to get a majority of the members of the Democratic National Committee together on such short notice. If Clinton were to drop out next week, it would be almost impossible for this to happen before election day.
In such a scenario, Barack Obama may attempt to invoke his emergency powers. Since the election would not be “fair” until the Democrats have a new candidate, he could try to delay or suspend the election. There would be a lot of controversy as to whether this is legal or not, but Barack Obama has not let the U.S. Constitution stop him in the past.
Meanwhile, new poll numbers show that the Trump campaign was already gaining momentum even before this story about the new emails broke. According to a brand new ABC News/Washington Post survey, Donald Trump is now only trailing Hillary Clinton by 4 points after trailing her by as much as 12 points last weekend.
And CNBC is reporting on a highly advanced artificial intelligence system that accurately predicted the outcomes of the presidential primaries and which is now indicating that Trump will be the winner in November…
An artificial intelligence system that correctly predicted the last three U.S. presidential elections puts Republican nominee Donald Trump ahead of Democrat rival Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.
MogIA was developed by Sanjiv Rai, founder of Indian start-up Genic.ai. It takes in 20 million data points from public platforms including Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the U.S. and then analyzes the information to create predictions.
The AI system was created in 2004, so it has been getting smarter all the time. It had already correctly predicted the results of the Democratic and Republican Primaries.
Without Hillary at the top of the ticket, the odds of a Trump victory would go way, way up.
So if Hillary is forced out of the race by this investigation, Barack Obama and the Democrats will want to delay or suspend the election for as long as possible if they can.
At this point there is probably not a high probability that such a scenario will play out, but in this crazy election year we have already seen that just about anything can happen.
If Obama suspends the election conflict will be soon to follow.
Grab the tin foil, if Trump was gaining and expected to win. Are these new emails a way to delay the election?
There is no authority given the President to suspend the election.
This would effectively be the suspension of the Constitution, an overthrow of lawful government, and the end of our free State.
The Constitution is quite clear about who is given final responsibility for protecting our Free State and how we are meant to do it if necessary.
Should this course be pursued by Obama, the Democrats, and his other supporters need to have this pointed out to him with an emphasis they cannot simply ignore.
But in truth, I doubt he would try this (but I bet he wishes he could do so and get away with it).
Even if Hillary were out, technically there are three other candidates.
Hillary for Prison 2016.
I think the lesson here is to NOT run a criminal as a candidate for any office. I doubt it is a lesson that will be learned though.
How I love all these conspiracy theories! Let me count the ways…
For now, I’m still sticking with ovomit having struck a deal to throw the hag under the bus in exchange for him being pardoned. That also gets him out from under the Klintoon machine’s thumb, which most certainly has a boatload of dirt on him. Today he said he didn’t think Comey was interfering with the election. So now I like my theory even more. Except that could also mean he has something planned for next week, such as a terror attack.
If the hag does get tossed out, I expect they’ll put biden in right away. It seems to me he’s been in the nooz quite a bit lately (but I don’t watch teevee so maybe it’s just my imagination).
Then again, if Deep State wants to wreak immediate havoc, the election could very well be suspended.
Fun times!
Just got back from trick or treating with my youngest son. Saw no less than half a dozen kids dressed as Trump.
Let Obozo pardon Harpy or cancel the election and Congress throw them both in prison.
Will Obama risk his legacy (such as it is) to defend Hillary?
No.
Good news is, if they throw out the Hildebeast, all those early votes go with her.
Okay, as soon as I heard about Anthony’s Weiner being thrown into the mix, I became certain that Obama and he were probably BFF texting buddies, being perverts and all. So, not only are there pictures of Huma and Hillary, but of other members of the administration that fundamentally transformed this country, particularly in Obama’s emails to Anthony or their selfie texts. So, if you thought poor Michael Jackson having to have his private parts photographed created outrage in the black community, how many TVs and IPhones at Walmart need to be looted to make up for having to see a feminized black male president’s dinky all over social media.
Eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeee.
I icked myself out there.
There are other candidates for president indeed. This almost makes me wish The Republican establishment had the spines to do what they wanted to do and forced Donald Trump to go Independent. Because, about right now, the signal to the Establishment Repugnants would be roaring in their ears as Trump says “You Are Fired!!!”
It almost reminds me of the folklore of those valiant patriots who proclaimed to evil tyrants “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” and flipped them the bird as their swords ran through.
There is only one way for Obama to keep from damaging forever the way he will be written up in history and that is to cancel the election until enough paper ballots can be printed for the entire country and a mutually satisfactory way of counting them can be assured. A complete do-over.
It is commonly accepted all voting machines and their tabulators can be jimmied at every button click by every Tom-Dick-and Harry. See for example Bev Harris and Black Box Voting for proof.
He doesn’t have the legal authority to do that.
It is not within the Presidents powers to cancel or postpone an election, and questionable if Congress would have that power either without a Constitutional amendment giving it to them.