Reminder many people only think about this stuff very late in the game. Peak Google search for “Hillary Clinton emails”: Oct 29-30, 2016. pic.twitter.com/yXLT2NOutx

— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) November 11, 2016

And releasing the BS letter (and minimizing the findings a week later) had serious and lasting consequences, particularly when RNC pollsters found their polling moving in Trump’s favor at the last minute - the breaking undecideds used the FBI letters as justification, even though it was complete and utter BS.