"Not to minimize her reckless and mendacious handling of email-server matters --but altogether different league than watergate," Bernstein tweeted. | AP Photo Carl Bernstein: Clinton email review not bigger than Watergate

To Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton's new email review by the FBI is "bigger than Watergate."

"No way," says journalist Carl Bernstein, who was part of the team that uncovered the Watergate scandal, which ultimately brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon.


"No way HRC emails 'bigger than watergate' -or close. Watergate was about a criminal Potus & 48 aides/co-conspirators found guilty," Bernstein wrote in a tweet Saturday.

"Not to minimize her reckless and mendacious handling of email-server matters --but altogether different league than watergate," he continued in a follow-up tweet.

The FBI announced Friday that it is looking into newly discovered emails as part of its investigation into the Democratic presidential nominee's use of a private email server as secretary of state.

Several hours after the announcement, Trump said at a rally in New Hampshire: "This is bigger than Watergate, in my opinion."

“Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office," the GOP nominee said.

No way HRC emails 'bigger than watergate' -or close. Watergate was about a criminal Potus & 48 aides/co-conspirators found guilty. — Carl Bernstein (@carlbernstein) October 29, 2016