Pelosi On Clinton: ‘She’s Going To Be President’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi stood by Hillary Clinton, following a July 5 FBI report that did not recommend an indictment for the former secretary of state but criticized her for mishandling classified information.

“People can nip at her heels all they want,” the California representative said of Clinton on July 6, according to USA Today. “She’s going to be president of the United States and she’s going to be a great president of the United States and that’s why [Republicans] can never take ‘no’ for an answer. The FBI director said ‘no.'”

The day before, FBI Director James Comey announced that the organization will not recommend that the Department of Justice charges Clinton for sending and receiving classified and sensitive government information on a private email server, as they did not determine that she had malicious intent in doing so, reports CNBC.

“Although there is evidence of potential violations regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” Comey said.

Pelosi, who endorsed Clinton for president in June 2016, chastised Clinton critics for questioning whether the FBI made the right decision, saying that Comey’s announcement revealed that “there was nothing prosecutable in what they reviewed.”

The Democratic leader also addressed concerns that Clinton lied about whether or not she sent or received classified and top secret documents on the server. In July 2015, the former secretary of state said that she “never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received,” though Comey said that 113 emails had actually made their way through Clinton’s private server, notes the Hill.

“Out of 30,000 emails, 110 or something were in question,” Pelosi told USA Today. “That’s too many. You don’t want any — but at 30,000, a small number. And the secretary said she made a mistake, she wouldn’t do it again. He said there’s not enough here to prosecute anything. I think that’s that.”

Sources: USA Today, The Hill, CNBC, Real Clear Politics / Photo Credit: Pete Souza/Wikimedia Commons