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Hillary already planning her giant victory celebration

October 31, 2016 | 5:07pm | Updated



This could blow up in her face!

Hillary Clinton may have lit the fuse for her victory celebration a little too soon — by planning an Election Night explosion of fireworks over the Hudson River, The Post has learned.

Law-enforcement officials and the FDNY have been told to prepare for a barge-launched pyrotechnic display off of Manhattan’s Javits Center, where Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine will join their supporters for the Nov. 8 vote count, sources said.

The aerial detonations would last for two minutes, with the triumphal celebration permitted to start as early as 9:30 p.m. — a mere half-hour after the polls close in New York, sources said.

But the Democratic presidential nominee’s blueprint for lighting up the sky was sketched out before last week’s revelation that the FBI had revived its probe of her private server scandal.

That move followed the discovery of a huge cache of emails top aide Huma Abedin left on a laptop computer her now-estranged hubby, Anthony Weiner, may have used to sext with an underage girl in North Carolina.

Republican rival Donald Trump has since surged in the polls, with the Real Clear Politics National Average showing him trailing by just 2.5 percentage points on Monday.

The FDNY memo ordering its Marine 1 company to provide stand-by protection for the fireworks show was sent out Friday — the same day FBI Director James Comey alerted

Congress that agents would check to see if the new emails contained any classified information.

The memo, obtained by The Post, also reveals that Clinton’s campaign hired Garden State Fireworks to put on the show — an ironic choice, as its resume includes the grand opening of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.

Cops and firefighters were blown away by Clinton’s hubris in planning the fireworks display, which would eclipse the shower of blazing sparkles that preceded the balloon drop at July’s Democratic National Convention.

“It’s a little presumptuous of her to plan on winning. I guess she put in for this before Friday,” one NYPD detective said.

Others said the actual election results could put a damper on things but with one firefighter raising the specter of a 2000-style re-count and adding,

“So what’s she going to do, put the fireworks on ice?”

Another source wondered: “If she loses will she take it over to the East Side and sell it to Trump for half-price?”

A retired firefighter said the FDNY’ s “rank and file is outraged they are being forced to do political work.”

“This will make it seem like the firefighters endorsed Hillary,” the source said.

The only fire-related union to back a candidate is the Fire Marshals Benevolent Association, which endorsed Trump.

Meanwhile, the fact that both Clinton and Trump will hold Election Night events in New York City — marking the first such coincidence in modern history

— is creating an unprecedented security challenge for law-enforcement authorities, sources said.

In addition to protecting both candidates and their running mates, there are fears of violent clashes “breaking out in the streets” between supporters on either side.

“We’ve seen during the campaign that there have been fights at rallies across the country,” a law-enforcement official noted.

Clinton’s campaign didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Additional reporting by Carl Campanile

http://nypost.com/2016/10/31/hillary...-hudson-river/

October 31, 2016, 08:06 pm

Clinton camp books fireworks display for election night



Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign has planned a fireworks display to go off over the Hudson River on election night.

Sources told the New York Post that the display will last for two minutes and could start around 9:30 p.m., only half an hour after polls close in the Empire State. That could be a sign that campaign is planning for an early victory over GOP nominee Donald Trump.



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4:36 PM - 31 Oct 2016

Law enforcement officials and the New York Fire Department (FDNY) have been told about the plans, and in a memo sent on Friday and obtained by the Post, the FDNY requested for stand-by protection.

The details of the Democratic nominee's election night event come just a few days after the FBI announced that it is reviewing new emails uncovered from former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-N.Y.) laptop that may be “pertinent” to the investigation of the private email server Clinton used while secretary of State.

The fallout has sparked a political firestorm and could upend the election in the final week of the race. Trump has been closing the gap nationally and in a number of battleground states. However, the FBI is unlikely to announce more details of the case before Nov. 8, given that it has 650,000 emails to sort through.

Some law enforcement officials said they were surprised to hear about her plans, especially in the wake of the FBI investigation.

“It’s a little presumptuous of her to plan on winning. I guess she put in for this before Friday,” a NYPD detective told the Post.

Clinton’s campaign announced last week that the former secretary of State will spend election night in Manhattan with a gathering at the Jacob K. Javits Center.

The venue notably has a glass ceiling, which goes with Clinton’s theme that becoming the U.S.'s first female president would shatter the "highest and hardest glass ceiling."

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump will also be spending election night in New York.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...election-night