Late last month, Hillary Clinton warned of an impending “October surprise”, the sort of political bombshell often seen towards the end of presidential campaigns and which in her case, in defeat by Donald Trump in 2016, saw both the leak of her Wall Street speeches, by Russian hackers, and an FBI investigation of her email use.
“I anticipate that something will happen in October, as it always does,” Clinton told PBS, adding that she expected Trump and Republicans to make “concerted efforts to distort and pervert Kamala Harris, who she is, what she stands for, what she’s done”.
