Valerie Griffeth with brother Matt Griffeth
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Donald Trump supporters at a rally in Maine on Friday said they were "thrilled" and relieved to learn that the FBI is again looking into emails related to Hillary Clinton.
"That's amazing," said Valerie Griffeth, a young Trump supporter attending his rally. "I'm so glad that they did."
"I feel like she's just a really dishonest person and she needs to be caught because it's immoral and it's wrong," Griffeth said of Clinton's use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state.
Carl Witham and Joel Ellis
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"I'm thrilled," said Joel Ellis, a veteran who served in Vietnam and in the reserves. "I think that the FBI and the Department of Justice stonewalled us on the last go-round. I don't care if she's guilty or not, but I'd like to find out."
In July, the FBI recommended no criminal charges of Clinton in regard to her email use, but Director James Comey did say she and her team were "extremely careless" with handling classified information.
On Friday, the FBI said it was again investigating emails related to Clinton, but many questions were left unanswered. Officials said that the emails were not on her private server.
Trump has potently attacked Clinton over the email scandal, and when he mentioned the new investigation at an earlier rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, the crowd erupted in cheers. “This was a grave miscarriage of justice," he said.
Ellis' friend, Carl Witham — who said he is a 35-year veteran of the US Air Force and National Guard — said he feels Clinton is guilty and that the FBI hasn't done enough to make a case against her.
"I think it was stopped by higher up," he said of the initial investigation.
In Maine, many Trump supporters waiting for the Republican nominee to deliver a speech in the gym of a Christian academy expressed doubt in the FBI's ability to conduct the investigation.
Doug Foss and Rich Carlson
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"I think they need to change the FBI, who's head of the FBI, before they start doing anymore investigating," said Doug Foss, a Trump supporter from nearby Lewiston. "He couldn't do it right the first time."
Foss said he thought it was "kind of funny" when the FBI didn't lay charges the first time around. "Rigged, as Donald Trump would say," Foss said, chuckling.
Rich Carlson, who attended the rally with Foss, said he feels that Clinton has received special treatment from the FBI.
"When they did the investigation the first time, they found plenty of evidence to proceed and they didn't," he said. "So I don't know how hopeful I am that they're going to anything the second time around."
Lynda Arsenault, a Trump supporter from Lisbon, said she was "disappointed" and "surprised" when the FBI said it wasn't pressing charges in early July. But on Friday, she first-pumped when she heard the news that the FBI was re-opening the case.
"Very good. I think it's about time," Arsenault said. "She's corrupt. She needs to not be our president."
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