Donald Trump has accused the FBI of
impropriety after it once again exonerated his rival Hillary Clinton of
criminal conduct on her emails.
The FBI director said a fresh
inquiry into the Democratic candidate's communications found nothing to
change the bureau's conclusion this summer.
The Clinton campaign said it was "glad" the lingering issue had been resolved.
The dramatic twist lifted a cloud from her campaign as the final day of the marathon US election race loomed.
The
latest opinion polls on Sunday, before news broke of the FBI
announcement, gave Mrs Clinton a four to five-point lead over Mr Trump.
The Republican nominee cried foul after learning about the law enforcement bureau's decision.
At
a rally in the Detroit suburbs, Mr Trump insisted it would have been
impossible for the FBI to review what has been reported to be as many as
650,000 emails in such a short time.
"Right now she's being
protected by a rigged system. It's a totally rigged system. I've been
saying it for a long time," he told supporters in Sterling Heights,
Michigan.
"Hillary Clinton is guilty, she knows it, the FBI knows it, the
people know it and now it's up to the American people to deliver justice
at the ballot box on November 8."
While Mrs Clinton herself did
not address the FBI director's letter on the trail, her campaign said it
was always confident she would be cleared.
In Manchester, New
Hampshire, on Sunday, she said the country was facing "a moment of
reckoning" and Americans must choose between "division and unity".
In
July, the FBI said she had been "extremely careless" to handle
classified material on a private email server as secretary of state from
2009-13, but it had found no evidence she committed a crime.
However,
11 days before the election, FBI director James Comey had pitched the
race into turmoil by announcing a newly discovered batch of Clinton
emails would be investigated.
The bombshell infuriated the Clinton camp, but threw a lifeline to a Trump campaign that had been receding in the polls.
In a letter to Congress on Sunday, Mr Comey said his investigators
had "worked around the clock" on the latest emails, which were found in
early October in a separate investigation.
The messages reportedly
turned up on a laptop belonging to the estranged husband of one of Mrs
Clinton's closest advisers, former congressman Anthony Weiner, who is
accused of sending illicit messages to a 15-year-old girl.
Mr
Comey said investigators had found no reason to change the FBI's earlier
assessment that Mrs Clinton should not be charged for her handing of
classified information.
Government officials told US media that investigators had established
the newly found emails were either personal, or were duplicates of
correspondence they had previously reviewed.
Senate Democratic
leader Harry Reid said Mr Comey's conclusion "underscores the
irresponsibility" of the law enforcement chief's notice late last month
to Congress about Mrs Clinton.
Both candidates are set for a whistle-stop tour of battleground states on Monday, in a last-ditch dash for votes.
Mrs
Clinton starts the day in Michigan, a traditional Rust Belt, Democratic
stronghold that has been heavily targeted by Mr Trump in recent days.
Who is ahead in the polls?
45%
Hillary Clinton
44%
Donald Trump
She will then head to Philadelphia where she will be joined by
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, husband Bill Clinton
and Bruce Springsteen.
The Democratic candidate will end her White House campaign with a midnight "get out the vote rally" in North Carolina.
Mr Trump heads to Florida, North Carolina and Philadelphia before ending with a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In states where early voting is allowed, nearly 42 million Americans have already cast ballots in the presidential election.
They have turned out in record numbers in crucial battlegrounds such as Florida, North Carolina and Nevada.
An estimated 126 million voters cast ballots in the 2012 White House election.
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