Trump, Other Republicans React After FBI Recommends ‘No Charges’ for Clinton in Email Probe

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sounded off just minutes after the FBI announced Monday that there would be no recommendation from the bureau for an indictment of Hillary Clinton over her use of private email servers while she was secretary of state.

FBI Director James Comey made the announcement during an 11 a.m. statement from the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters — and less than than 40 minutes later, Trump took to Twitter to once again unload on the "rigged" system.

"The system is rigged. General Petraeus got in trouble for far less. Very very unfair! As usual, bad judgment," Trump tweeted, referring to Gen. David Petraeus, who was charged after giving classified information to his biographer and girlfriend, Paula Broadwell.

But Trump didn't stop there.

"FBI director said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow! #RiggedSystem," he added.

Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer said on CNN after the FBI's announcement that, despite the lack of any formal charges, the findings are a "clear indictment" on Clinton's "judgment and fitness to be president."

And House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) blasted the FBI's decision, saying it "defies explanation"

"Declining to prosecute Secretary Clinton for recklessly mishandling and transmitting national security information will set a terrible precedent," Ryan said.

California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, and former GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee were among many other Clinton critics to sound off:

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