--- title: Hillary ClInton Emails: Donald Trump Reaction Transcript description: Donald Trump praised the FBI for reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails on Friday. canonical: https://time.com/4550004/hillary-clinton-email-fbi-reopen-donald-trump-transcript/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-28T20:06:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:25.220Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Trump's Remarks on the Clinton Email Investigation og:description: A complete transcript. og:url: https://time.com/4550004/hillary-clinton-email-fbi-reopen-donald-trump-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcf0a13b3565e4bd/6988ac01ab6d77511a6abbe2/donald-trump-ral.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: OH: Donald Trump Campaigns in Toledo og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Trump's Remarks on the Clinton Email Investigation twitter:description: A complete transcript. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcf0a13b3565e4bd/6988ac01ab6d77511a6abbe2/donald-trump-ral.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Donald Trump's Remarks on the Hillary Clinton Email Investigation > Sponsored content. 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Emily Molli—NurPhoto/Sipa USA by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Oct 28, 2016 8:06 PM UTC Donald Trump [praised the FBI for reopening an investigation](http://time.com/4549586/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-email-fbi-investigation-reopen/) into Hillary Clinton’s emails on Friday. Appearing at a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, the Republican presidential nominee reversed his previous criticism of the law enforcement agency, which had recommended against charging Clinton in July over her handling of classified information. “I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the Department of Justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made,” he said. 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