Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participates in the third and final presidential debate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) in Las Vegas, Nevada, the United States, Oct. 19, 2016.(Xinhua/Yin Bogu)
BEIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lashed out Saturday at Democrat Hillary Clinton's new email probe, saying the former state secretary was not fit to lead the country.
Declaring his opponent "guilty" at rallies in Colorado's cities of Phoenix and Golden, Trump claimed that Clinton was a symbolic type of public corruption which is a "grave threat" to the U.S. democracy.
On Friday, with the Nov. 8 election day being only 11 days away, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey said in a letter to the U.S. Congress that new emails had emerged recently which appear to be linked to the FBI's Clinton email probe.
Comey said the FBI should investigate these new emails, but can not yet assess "whether or not this material may be significant."
In response to news reports that the Department of Justice did not agree with FBI over the revelation of the new probe, Trump accused that the department is trying to protect Clinton.
"When the outcome is fixed, when the system is rigged, people lose hope. They stop dreaming. They stop trying." the New York real estate billionaire said in Phoenix, "Hillary Clinton's corruption is corrosive to the soul of our nation and it must be stopped."
Analysts said Trump was trying to mount a counterattack on Clinton by taking advantage of the FBI's decision.
After the release of a 2005 audio tape about his "groping women" words and the emergence of several women's charges on his groping actions made against them, Trump has been reeling for weeks in his campaign for the White House.
Calling Clinton's email practices the biggest political scandal since Watergate, Trump said in the city of Golden, Colorado state, that the FBI's review raises "everybody's deepest hope that justice, at last, can be properly delivered."
On the Clinton side, words such as "unprecedented" and "deeply troubling" were heard from Democratic leaders.
With backers declaring the new emails lack crucial details, Clinton told a rally in Florida that FBI Director James Comey should put out the "full and complete facts" about the review.
"It is pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election," Clinton said. She charged that Trump tried to confuse and mislead voters with the issue in the home stretch of the election.
Clinton also accused Trump of stoking fear, disgracing American democracy and insulting one group of Americans after another.
"Are we going to let Donald Trump get away with that? You're right. We're not," she said. "No matter what they throw at us, we don't back down. Not now. Not ever."
Clinton has repeatedly attacked Trump for being unfit to be president as well.
Public opinion polls showed that Trump has narrowed the gap between him and Clinton nationally.
On Saturday, the latest poll by tracker site RealClearPolitics put Clinton 3.9-percentage points above Trump nationwide, down from a lead of 7.1 points just 10 days ago.
Even if Clinton wins the White House in the end, she would celebrate a victory under a cloud of investigation as the probe will not come to an end shortly.
Also, public opinion polls show that American voters still deeply dislike both Clinton and Trump.
"The whole campaign is now smeared with sex, corruption and scandal," Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic strategist who had previously advised former President Bill Clinton told Reuters, "Nobody remembers the beginning of something, they only remember the end. What are they going to remember? They're all the same: sex, scandal, corruption, emails. People are going to have trouble sorting out all this information."
