The decision by the FBI not to bring charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for using her private email server to handle highly classified material says more about the criminal justice system in this country than it does about Clinton’s supposed innocence.

Judging from the statements made by FBI Director James Comey, Clinton looks guilty as hell. Comey contradicted many of Clinton’s past explanations in the case, including her claim that she’d turned over all her emails and that she had never sent or received any that were classified at the time. The FBI director said investigators found 113 emails were determined to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.

As for having turned over all of her emails, the FBI said “several thousand workrelated emails” were not among the group of 30,000 Clinton turned over in 2014. And Comey raised the possibility that people hostile to the U.S. had gained access to Clinton’s personal email account.

“There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position … should have known that an unclassified system was no place” for sensitive conversations, Comey said.

The FBI director said the determining factor in the decision not to bring criminal charges against Clinton was that there was no evidence that she intended to break the law.

That may be true, but it’s also false.

Intent wasn’t really the deciding factor – that’s just a lawyer’s excuse. There was never any real danger that Clinton – the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee – was going to be charged, because Donald Trump is right: the system is rigged.

It’s rigged in favor of people like Clinton and Trump – wealthy, powerful and well-connected. It may be coincidental that the FBI’s announcement came just days after former President Bill Clinton had a meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, but the fact that such a meeting even took place stinks to high heaven and promotes the impression that the fix was in. We can’t help thinking that had the subject of the investigation been some low-level flunky using a private email server to send classified documents, the FBI wouldn’t have seen fit to look the other way. Government lawyers only go after the low-hanging fruit, so the fact that the system is rigged is hardly a surprise.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said the FBI’s decision not to charge Clinton “suggests that she gets to play by a different set of rules than everyone else.” Not everyone. It’s only the rich, powerful and well-connected who get their own special justice system in this country, like the Wall Street banksters who weren’t charged in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse that cost ordinary people trillions of dollars in life savings. Was the system rigged for them? You bet.

It’s one of the reasons people are disgusted with our government, and it helps explain why many are looking to a guy like Trump for answers, scary as that may be.