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Article snippet: WASHINGTON — For Hillary Clinton, the sudden fall of James B. Comey is wrapped in multiple layers of irony. Mrs. Clinton blames Mr. Comey for tilting the presidential election against her in the closing days of last year’s campaign by announcing that the F.B.I. might reopen its investigation of her email practices while she was at the State Department. Yet her satisfaction at seeing him lose his job, friends said, is offset by worries that it could derail the F.B.I.’s investigation of ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. Mrs. Clinton, these people said, puts no stock in President Trump’s stated rationale for dismissing Mr. Comey as the F.B.I. director — that he mishandled the bureau’s investigation of her email case — even though she fundamentally agrees with that damning assessment. One person who spoke with Mrs. Clinton after the White House’s announcement said she has a “mixed mind” about his firing. While Mrs. Clinton believes that Mr. Comey interfered with the election, this person said, “taking him out of his job at this point only reinforces the point that he was on to something.” Mrs. Clinton has said nothing publicly about the F.B.I. director’s dismissal. In her most recent Twitter post, on May 7, she celebrated the victory of Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential election, which she said was a “defeat to those interfering w/democracy.” Top officials from her campaign said there was no joy in Hillaryland at Mr. Trump’s startling deci... Link to the full article to read more