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In the immediate aftermath of the FBI’s announcement that they would not recommend charges against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in connection with her handling of emails while at the State Department, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump repeated his frequent claim that “General Petraeus got in trouble for far less,” a reference to GeneralDavid Petraeus‘ guilty plea for mishandling classified information.

At a hastily-arranged congressional hearing Thursday morning, FBI Director James Comey thoroughly destroyed Trump’s claim in under a minute:

Bet you won't see that clip in a Republican ad.

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