Lynch: Aftermath Of Tarmac Meeting With Bill Clinton Was ‘Painful’

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Loretta Lynch says that the backlash from Donald Trump and his supporters following her impromptu meeting with Bill Clinton on a Phoenix tarmac in June was “painful” for her.

“I wish I had seen around that corner and not had that discussion with the former president, as innocuous as it was, because it did give people concern,” Lynch told CNN in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN. “It did make people wonder, ‘is it going to affect the investigation that’s going on?’ And that’s not something that was an unreasonable question for anyone to ask.”

Shortly after her meeting, Lynch said she regretted the meeting, and she repeated that in the interview with CNN.

“I do regret sitting down and having a conversation with him, because it did give people concern,” she said. “And as I said, my greatest concern has always been making sure that people understand that the Department of Justice works in a way that is independent and looks at everybody equally.”

Watch part of the interview via CNN:

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  1. Bill Clinton sure did some dumb things during his wife’s campaign, but the emails were always a phony issue. The non-voters/third party voters were responsible for Trump.

  2. Avatar for cabchi cabchi says:

    Lynch should have never relinguished her constitutional and statutory responsibility to make the decision on the Clinton email issue. Just like Obama, who failed his constitutional responsibility to inform the Anerican people of the criminal Russian interference in our presidential election. It is impossible to imagine Republicans doing the same thing if they had been in office.

    I assume that Lynch is telling the truth that she did not discuss the email case with Bill Clinton. And I assume that the intelligence agencies know - and can prove - that Putin stole private information for the purpose of giving the election to Trump. By abdicating their responsibilities, Obama and Lynch evidenced weakness and a failure of nerve. As someone who voted for Obama and respects Lynch, these are hard truths to swallow. But it is the truth nevertheless.

  3. or maybe a whole bunch of people didn’t vote or voted for trump because Hillary is the second most hated politician in America? Keep believing that the DNC’s torpedoing of Sanders didn’t make Trump president. The ugliness

  4. Clinton received something like 2.9 million more votes. Our electoral college is responsible for Trump.

  5. “I’ve always said, if you are A DEMOCRAT, in public life, or even in private life, when you make a mistake, you own it.”

    There, fixed it for you.

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