Trump Slams ‘Sneak’ Tarmac Meeting Between Bill Clinton, Loretta Lynch

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at Alumisource, a metals recycling facility in Monessen, Pa. A new multi-nation survey finds that confidence in Do... Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at Alumisource, a metals recycling facility in Monessen, Pa. A new multi-nation survey finds that confidence in Donald Trump’s ability to manage foreign policy should be become U.S. president is rock-bottom in a host of countries in Europe and Asia. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) MORE LESS
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Donald Trump on Thursday hyped a private meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton as one of the biggest stories of the year after the interaction inflamed ring-wingers hungry for an indictment of Hillary Clinton.

“I think it’s so terrible, I think it’s so horrible,” Trump told conservative talk radio host Mike Gallagher. “I think it’s the biggest story, one of the big stories of this week, of this month, of this year.”

Trump, who said the meeting “was really a sneak,” went on to say it was evidence of “the rigged system” and showed poor judgment.

“You see a thing like this and, even in terms of judgment, how bad of judgment is it for him or for her to do this? Who would do this?” he asked.

An anonymous aide to Bill Clinton told CNN that the Monday meeting happened after the two realized they happened to be on the same tarmac in Phoenix.

The meeting happened one day before the release of the House Benghazi Committee’s report on its two-year-long probe, which riled up conservatives who’ve long maintained that Hillary Clinton bungled the U.S. response to the 2012 attacks as secretary of state.

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  1. Trump’s an asshole but I have to agree. This was poor judgment.

  2. Donald, you are a loser asshole, a thief, and a “draft dodging coward.”

  3. I don’t know. I thought the big story was a guy who claims to have forgiven a big loan to his campaign but didn’t.

    “Where’s the fuckin’ money. Shithead?”

  4. Why was it poor judgment? Two people who know each other who happened to be in the same place, met up and talked.

  5. To quote Darth Cheney, :“So?”

    Where’s the money, Lebowski?

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