BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY NOV. 1, 2016) — It’s “the biggest scandal since Watergate.”

So says GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump about the FBI’s reopening of a criminal investigation of rival Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server while she served as Secretary of State. The FBI has obtained a warrant to search the new hidden e-mails, and early results indicate Hilldog may be in for a rough ride. All this as Clinton’s surrogates, lackeys, and apologists feverishly struggle to contain this widening story, whose ending will not be known for some time.

Here’s Hilldog the day after the FBI’s October surprise. Read the body language. You tell us. What’s going on? (PHOTO: AP)

This much is certain: The renewed probe has given Trump a huge boost while delivering a crushing blow to Clinton. It’s the equivalent of a point-swing in football. The Raiders are on the Eagle’s two yard line, ready to score, but they fumble on the next play. The Eagles recover then drive for a touchdown. That’s a 14-point swing. When it comes in a tight game late in the 4th quarter … well, does THE PLANET have to draw you a map?

What Do the E-Mails Contain?

What are contained in the tens of thousands of e-mails the FBI found hidden on Anthony Weiner’s personal computer? As you may know, Weiner estranged wife is Huma Abeden, Hillary’s closest friend, has disappeared. Sources say she she’s pulling a Garbo, in seclusion at her Manhattan apartment.

G-Men found the e-mails accidentally, it appears, while they were investigating Weiner on a charge of sexting a 15-year-old North Carolina girl. As they examined Weiner’s server, lo! and behold!, a fresh batch of State Department e-mails.

That FBI director James Comey decided to reopen the probe just 11 days before the presidential election (now one week away) shocked the nation and the world. Reason would tell us he wouldn’t have done so, especially after he had declared the case closed in July, unless investigators suspected an appalling breach — for example, jeopardizing national security. That’s treason, y’all.

It is appalling if true that a Secretary of State would treat official department information, classified files at that, in such cavalier fashion. It is doubling loathsome if she hid files while under investigation for criminality. It is beyond all understanding to think that highly classified filed may have been compromised to such an extent as to put them on a private computer of a creep such as Weiner. That’s the same as giving every foreign country the keys to America’s national-security “lock box.”

Would this explain, for example, the bold initiatives taken by nations such as Russia, China, and the Philippines while Hillary was heading State? Russia waltzed into the Ukraine while Vladimir Putin ran circles around President OBama in statesmanship and brinksmanship. Putin felt no qualms about dealing with the incompetent Commander in Chief by taking US-Russia relations back to the darkest hours of the Cold War. In the Mideast, under the Obama-Clinton regime, ISIS came to birth, maturity, and fruition. In China, the emerging world Superpower has laid claim to geopolitics as never before, for instance, in their aggressive build-up in the South China Sea. Meanwhile, new Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has dumped the U.S. and embraced China and Russia in a strategic area that the U.S. has long used as its gateway to the Pacific Rim.

‘A Most Egregious Criminal Offense’

All this came under the watch of Obama and Clinton. It’s not a stretch to align their disastrous foreign policy blunders — delivering state secrets and bumbling deals to foreign governments like so many M&Ms given to kids on Trick-or-Treat — with the newly discovered e-mails stashed away on Weiner’s computer.

“The FBI would never have re-opened this case at this time unless it were a most egregious criminal offense,” Trump said. “The investigation is the biggest political scandal since Watergate, and it’s everybody’s hope that justice at last can be delivered.”

“I have had plenty of words about the FBI lately, but I give them great credit for having the courage to right this horrible wrong,” Trump added. “Justice will prevail.”

Trump also slammed Clinton’s response to FBI Director James Comey’s letter to congressional lawmakers announcing the discovery of the emails through a separate investigation.

“In a very brief remark … Hillary Clinton tried to politicize this investigation by attacking and falsely accusing the FBI director of only sending the letter to Republicans, another Clinton lie,” Trump railed. “As it turned out, the letter was sent to both Republican and Democratic leaders.”

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THE PLANET cannot recall an instance where the head of one of the major departments of the U.S. government released a ticking bomb so close to an election. It was one of the unwritten rules of government: FBI, Justice, State, Oval — never do this, unless national security is on the line.

As Jimmy Durante once said, “Tings are gettin’ interestinger and interestinger.

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“Sure, we’ll give you a fair trial. Then we’re gonna hang you.” — Judge Roy Bean

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

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