Comey feared making Clinton an "illegitimate president"

In retrospect, however, Comey said he might have handled it differently if he knew Clinton could lose.

“It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls,” Comey writes in his new memoir.

“But I don’t know.”