Claims "FBI director said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security," then tweets "No charges. Wow! #RiggedSystem"

After FBI Director James Comey announced on July 5, 2016 that he would not recommend criminal charges over Hillary Clinton's private email server while sharply criticizing her handling of classified information, Trump responded by twisting the statement into a clean slogan for his "rigged system" narrative. On Twitter he wrote that the "FBI director said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security" and followed it with "No charges. Wow! #RiggedSystem," language widely quoted in coverage of the fallout. Comey's actual statement was that Clinton and her aides were "extremely careless" with classified material but that the Bureau did not find clear evidence of intentional violations or efforts to obstruct justice, yet Trump recast it as a simple declaration that she had compromised national security and used the decision not to indict as proof that elites had fixed the outcome in her favor.

"FBI director said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow! #RiggedSystem." — July 5, 2016 tweet from @realDonaldTrump reacting to the FBI's decision not to recommend charges in the Clinton email case, which he and multiple outlets framed as part of his broader claim that "the system is rigged."