The Daily Trail:

Ignore the byline at the top of this page; I've just started a new gig working with the fabulous Fix team, which means the Trail may look a bit different, and will definitely feature a few more hands. Today, those hands belong to Amber Phillips, who reports below on the day's big email news:

Depending on who you talk to, the drama surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state is so over (Democrats) or so not over (Republicans).

What's indisputable is that the FBI has finished its investigation of Clinton's exclusive use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday they found she was "extremely careless" about the rules of how to keep classified information secret but that she didn't do anything that merits prosecution. Given that, it's almost certain the Justice Department won't press criminal charges.

(icymi: here are Comey's full remarks)

Clinton's team says they're happy to have this behind her, while Republicans say the decision not to prosecute someone who clearly broke the rules is an outrage. It's safe to say they probably won't let this go quietly.

And why should they? There are a lot more political implications from the investigation to unpack, and most of them are not great news for Clinton.

Here's your guide to the biggest day in the Clinton email drama and what is likely one of the worst days for the Clinton campaign so far

What we learned Tuesday ... And why it's not great for Clinton.

It's over. (It's not over.) REUTERS/Chris Bergin

The FBI actually shared a lot of new information Tuesday. Much of it directly contradicts Clinton's story about how she used her email server and whether she knowingly sent or received classified information. (For a full rundown of what we learned about the email drama, read The Washington Post's Mark Berman's breakdown, and Fact Checker Glenn Kessler's updated analysis of Clinton's email claims, upgrading — or is it downgrading? — his assessment from two to four Pinnochios.)

1. What Clinton said: Clinton first said she did not send or receive any emails that were classified. Then amended that to say she didn't knowingly send or receive classified information at the time, meaning bureaucrats may have upgraded the information in her emails to classified after she left the State Department.

What the FBI found: More than 100 emails had classified information on it when they were sent or received: 110 emails on 52 email chains, to be exact. Eight of those email chains contained information that was Top Secret, or the highest classification.

The conservative media is latching onto that discrepancy, reports The Fix's Callum Borchers:

2. What Clinton said: There was no evidence her server or her devices had been hacked.

What the FBI found: There's no evidence, but it's possible Clinton's emails could have been hacked. Comey noted Clinton sent and received emails on her private server while "in the territory of sophisticated adversaries," a no-no for government employees. What's more, the FBI found evidence "hostile actors" hacked into the emails of people with whom Clinton was regularly in contact with. (More on hacking in a minute.)

3. What Clinton said: She handed over all her work-related emails to the State Department when the nation realized she had been using a private email server all these years instead of a public one. But first, she deleted thousands she deemed personal and private.

What the FBI found: "Several thousand" work-related emails that were not among the 30,000 she originally handed over. The FBI's Comey did say investigators found no evidence she was trying to hide anything work-related, but it still directly contrasts what Clinton's been saying.

4. What Clinton said: She used her private email as a matter of convenience -- to not have to carry around multiple phones, for example.

What the FBI found: Throughout her four-year tenure as our nation's top diplomat, she actually used several servers and "numerous" phones to access those servers, suggesting more calculation on Clinton's part than she let on.

What this means for 2016:

"It’s hard to read Comey’s statement as anything other than a wholesale rebuke of the story Clinton and her campaign team have been telling," about her emails, writes Chris Cillizza.

And that's bad news for her campaign, which has been struggling on questions of whether she is honest and trustworthy and badly wanted to move on from this whole email thing.

Clinton did herself no favors in shoring up public opinion about her character, and she gave Republicans plenty of fodder to all but ensure they hammer her on it -- and the emails -- for the next 126 days. (Her campaign allies — who just floated a Loretta Lynch for Clinton AG trial balloon — aren't doing her any favor either.)

The little-known story about how this very big email story came to be:

Marcel Lazar Lehel, 40, is escorted by masked policemen in Bucharest, after being arrested in 2014. REUTERS/Mediafax/Silviu Matei/Files

The fact Clinton used a private email server while secretary of state almost derailed her presidential campaign.

But it actually became public two years before the the New York Times reported in March 2015 she used the server exclusively. It was just buried inside other stories that seemed like bigger deals at the time, writes Borchers.

In 2013, a Romanian hacker known as "Guccifer" gained access to one of Clinton's confidants, Sidney Blumenthal. The quasi-news-technology website The Smoking Gun reported that: "Blumenthal's memos and emails to Clinton were sent to her at a non-governmental email address through the Web domain 'clintonemail.com.' "

"Huh," Borchers writes. "Wonder what that's all about." (Stay tuned...)

—Amber Phillips

THE VIEW FROM THE TRAIL:

On the trail. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMMNICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images

Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton hit North Carolina (where the race literally couldn't be any tighter) today.

Clinton went first, appearing with President Obama in Charlotte.

"President Obama made his debut on the campaign trail Tuesday for Hillary Clinton, declaring himself 'ready to pass the baton' during a boisterous rally in this battleground state on a politically challenging day for his preferred successor....

"Neither the president, nor Clinton, nor any of the other speakers on the program here made a single mention of the campaign news that dominated the day: the announcement by FBI Director James B. Comey that his agency will not recommend criminal charges against Clinton for her use of a private email server but that it found her staff 'extremely careless' in handling sensitive material.

Obama instead recounted his growing confidence in Clinton’s abilities from the time they were Democratic primary rivals to her tenure as secretary of state to her newfound status as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee against Republican Donald Trump.

"'There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than her. Ever. And that’s the truth,' said Obama, who appeared sans suit jacket and with the sleeves of his dress shirt rolled up." (Is that true? It depends.)

Donald Trump (who just finished speaking minutes ago) had enough email comments for both candidates. Among his thoughts: Clinton rival Bernie Sanders "lost the FBI primary."

But before he spoke...

Donald Trump tweeted an image that came from a June 15 tweet by @FishBoneHead1, an account with a penchant for memes that mock Muslims, black Democrats and more. Trump later deleted the tweet and uploaded it with a circle instead of a red Star of David. (Twitter screengrab)

Yes, we are still talking about Star-gate. We are still talking about it because the Trump campaign decided to talk about it last night, thus ensuring yet another day of Star-gate coverage.

"Donald Trump struggled on Tuesday to move past his latest social media firestorm for the fourth consecutive day, facing a bipartisan scolding Tuesday for tweeting a controversial image attacking Hillary Clinton widely viewed as anti-Semitic.

"Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said in a radio interview that anti-Semitic images have 'no place in a presidential campaign' and added, 'I don’t know what flunky put this up there.' Some leading Jewish Republican donors and activists also voiced concerns about Trump’s habit of posting material that originated in racist, white supremacist corners of the Internet.

"Trump’s son-in-law and close campaign confidant Jared Kushner, who is Jewish, also faced blowback. An entertainment writer at the New York Observer posted an open letter to Kushner online urging him to rebuke the tweet. Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, is the publisher of the Observer.

"Clinton, who condemned the tweet over the weekend, on Tuesday posted a video on Twitter of Trump in a TV interview from earlier this year waffling over whether to denounce the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and other white supremacists. In interviews before and after that, Trump denounced Duke.

"For some, Trump’s tweet and the ensuing backlash has highlighted an enduring problem the presumptive GOP nominee has not been able to put to rest: His occasional posting of racially-charged messages on social media that could be avoided with more careful research and vetting. For others, it has served as troubling reminder that Trump’s campaign, which has centered on calls to deport immigrants and ban Muslims, has attracted strong support among the white nationalist movement."

AND WITH THAT: A SERVICEY #CHART! Via Philip Bump: "Since Trump is new to campaigning, and since there may be other non-politicians who seek to emulate his success, we've gone ahead and made a little flowchart for how and when one might want to 'lift' an image from a website for your own purposes. We hope that [Trump social media director] Dan Scavino and others find it helpful."

So that was a bit distracting. Also a bit off-message: some on Trump's North Carolina crowd tonight.

—2016 alumni watch: John Kasich says delegates should search their consciences before voting in Cleveland. "'They have to weigh their responsibilities against their consciences and then make a decision about what they want to do,' he said." Go on....

"About his statement that the delegates should examine their consciences before casting their convention votes, he said, 'I don’t see that designed to create any sort of disruption. That is not where I am. I’m a happy man.' ...Asked directly if he is likely to back Trump before the convention, he said, 'Probably not. Unless I see a Saul-to-Paul transformation on the road to Damascus, I don’t see it happening... I may still support him, but I’m going to have to see changes.'"

—Trump veepstakes (Trumpstakes?) update: Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) spent the day at Trump’s side, meeting privately with the presumptive GOP nominee on Tuesday in New York, then flying with him to Raleigh, N.C. Tomorrow is Newt Gingrich's turn; the former House speaker joins Trump on the campaign trail in Ohio. And Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says he's "ready, willing and able" to help Trump.

—Convention update: "A white nationalist group has reversed course and will no longer send a team to 'protect Trump supporters' attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, saying the elected delegates at the event are 'not the people we were trying to protect,'" reported NBC. "A spokesman from the Traditionalist Worker Party told NBC News Tuesday, the convention 'isn't really a proper hill to die on with [delegates] not being true supporters.'"

—#STATS:

YOUR DAILY TRAIL PIT STOP: So if you watched the firework show on the National Mall from anywhere other than Washington, D.C., you may have gotten footage of more fireworks than you bargained for: with a cloud cover obscuring the view a bit this year, PBS opted to supplement the show with clips of other, better years. Twitter did not take kindly to the decision — and as journalists, we agree that embracing crappy reality is always the best bet in these situations. But as humans, we like pretty fireworks — so icymi: here they are!

YOUR DAILY TRAIL PIT STOP: You may have heard that some people were a bit disappointed with yesterday's fireworks on the National Mall. If you were one of those people, here's some extra America for you: a 360 degree video ride on the back of an eagle. (Yes.)