The same evening Donald Trump railed against the FBI’s findings in the Hillary Clinton email probe and accused Clinton of bribing Attorney General Loretta Lynch, he declined to say whether Lynch would have a place in his administration if elected.
Appearing at a rally Tuesday evening in Raleigh, North Carolina, Trump accused Clinton of offering to keep Lynch on under her administration after FBI Director James Comey announced he would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton for using a private server.
“[Clinton] said today that we may consider the Attorney General to go forward. That’s like a bribe isn’t it? Isn’t that sort of a bribe? I think it’s a bribe,” Trump told the crowd, according to the Washington Post. Moments later, he declared, “It’s a bribe!”
Clinton has not publicly said if she would offer Lynch a job in her administration.
After the event, Trump phoned in to Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor.” Asked by the host if he would fire Lynch and Comey should he be elected President, Trump was evasive.
“I don’t want to comment on that. I really don’t want to comment on that. It’s inappropriate at this moment,” Trump told Bill O’Reilly.
The presumptive GOP nominee also showed restraint when O’Reilly asked if he would accuse President Obama “of influencing the case” and Clinton of “committing a crime.”
“I’m going to further look into it and we will see what we shall see,” he said. “I’m going to look into it very, very strongly and we will see what we will see.”
