Donald Trump: Bill Clinton-Loretta Lynch Secret Meeting Shows ‘Rigged System’
Fri 8:01 am +00:00, 1 Jul 2016
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said the meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and President Bill Clinton was “terrible” and “horrible.”
“It is an amazing thing,” Trump stated during an interview on The Mike Gallagher Show. “I’ve been talking about the rigged system, how it’s rigged,” he said, adding “this is terrible.”
“It was really a sneak … it was really something that they didn’t want publicized, as I understand it, is that correct?” Trump added, “Wow.”
“I think it’s so terrible. I think it’s so horrible. I think it’s … one of the big stories of this week, of this month, of this year,” Trump suggested.
Trump was commenting on a short meeting on a private plane between Lynch and Clinton earlier this week.
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With an investigation into the use of emails under Hillary Clinton ongoing, Bill and Lynch meet privately on Monday
(Credit: Fox News)
As if anymore fuel needed to be added to the conservative fire that the Obama administration is simply unable to conduct an impartial investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private servers and emails while secretary of state, her husband decided to hold an impromptu meeting with the chief prosecutor in the investigation this week.
An aide to Bill Clinton confirmed to CBS News that the meeting wasn’t planned in advance: President Clinton saw the attorney general on the tarmac and wanted to say hello, so he boarded her plane to talk.
The meeting came a day before the House Benghazi Committee released a report on the 2012 terror attacks in Libya. Lynch told reporters the two did not discuss the issue. Of course, the Justice Department and FBI are also investigating the security of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, which she used to conduct official business as secretary of state.
“There was no discussion of any matter pending for the department or any matter pending for any other body,” Lynch assured reporters after confirming the meeting on Tuesday.
“As I was leaving and he spoke to myself and my husband on the plane. Our conversation was a great deal about his grandchildren. It was primarily social and about our travels. He mentioned the golf he played in Phoenix,” Lynch explained at a press conference in the area later.
“My agency is involved in a matter looking at State Department policies and issues,” she said. “It’s being handled by career investigators and career agents. It will always follow the facts and the law and do the same independent and thorough investigation that they’ve done in all.”
Still, even the slightest appearance of impropriety at this stage has many Democrats shaking their heads at the carelessness displayed by Clinton:
I take @LorettaLynch & @billclinton at their word that their convo in Phoenix didn’t touch on probe. But foolish to create such optics.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) June 30, 2016
On CNN’s “New Day” Thursday, Democratic Senator Chris Coons agreed that the meeting appeared inappropriate.
“I do agree with you that it doesn’t send the right signal,” Coons said to co-host Alysin Camerota. “I am impressed with Attorney General Loretta Lynch … I’m convinced that she is an independent attorney general. But I do think that this meeting sends the wrong signal, and I don’t think it sends the right signal. I think she should have steered clear, even of a brief, casual, social meeting with the former president.”
And of course, Republicans in Congress were quick to jump on news of the meeting to again pressure Lynch to appoint a special counsel to investigate the use of email and private serves at the State Department during Clinton’s tenure.
Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn, who has been a chief of opponent of Lynch since President Obama first nominated her for Attorney General, again repeated his calls for a special prosecutor.
Lynch & Clinton: Conflict of interest? An attorney,cannot represent two parties in a dispute and must avoid even the appearance of conflict.
— JohnCornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 30, 2016
Did @BarackObama instruct @LorettaLynch to hear Bill Clinton out? Maybe she gets to stay on? A @SCOTUSnom instead of Garland? #Corruption
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) June 30, 2016
If Lynch won’t remove herself from Clinton investigation now then Congress absolutely should.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 30, 2016





