Clinton says she lost election due to "unprecedented" Russian cyberattacks

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said her defeat in the Nov. 8 election was due to a series of "unprecedented" events - Russian cyberattacks and new FBI accusations about her handling of e-mails containing classified government information.


According to an audio reported Friday by The New York Times, Clinton, who lost the election to Republican Donald Trump by not winning the necessary minimum of 270 Electoral College votes, said her defeat was in part due to Putin's "personal beef against me."

In that statement, made Thursday at a private fundraiser in New York, the Democrat blamed her loss on last-minute changes among undecided voters in America's swing states, due to "some unprecedented factors that I don't think we can ignore."

Clinton said the letter from FBI Director James Comey just a week before the election, which revived the controversy over her supposedly improper use of her personal server for classified government communications, was one of the factors that switched the vote against her in key states like Florida, North Carolina, and those in the Midwestern rust belt.

"Swing-state voters made their decisions in the final days breaking against me because of the F.B.I. letter from Director Comey," Clinton said in the audio obtained by the The New York Times.
 EFE
17/12/16