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Dems Criticize Lynch-Bill Clinton Meeting as Sending 'Wrong Signal'
Newsmax ^ | June 30, 2016 | Cathy Burke

Posted on 06/30/2016 2:32:10 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Democrats aren't happy about the "wrong signal" telegraphed by a private meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch — who's overseeing the probe into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server — and Bill Clinton.

In a rare rebuke of the presumptive nominee by a member of her own party, Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons sharply criticized the meeting between the prosecutor and former president.

"I don't think it sends the right signal," he tells CNN's "New Day" program in an interview Thursday. "I think she should have steered clear even of a brief, casual, social meeting with the former president."

David Axelord, a former adviser to both Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama, was even more pointed, calling the meeting "foolish."

Lynch has explained she and the former president talked about grandchildren, and described the meeting as "primarily social."

She also denied discussion the email probe or House Benghazi panel's investigation, which was released the day after their meeting.

Another ex-adviser to Bill Clinton, pollster Doug Schoen, tells Fox News the former president "was in his own way taking the temperature of the attorney general, not alleging that there was any impropriety."

But, he adds, "given the timing, this was a meeting that probably best shouldn't have been held."

Coons, as well, said he thinks Lynch "has generally shown excellent judgment and strong leadership of the department, and I'm convinced that she's an independent attorney general."

"But I do think that this meeting sends the wrong signal," he asserted.

Two other top Democrats rushed to Lynch's defense.

"No one can ever question [Lynch's] strong feelings about the rule of the law. And her ethics, I repeat, are the best," declared Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Politico reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Arizona; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; airportmeeting; arizona; billclinton; bubba; clinton; criminalconspiracy; election2016; fbi; jamescomey; lorettalynch; lynch; meeting; newyork; phoenix; trump
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To: Noob1999

Hey guy. I hope you are doing well.

Good to see your moniker.

5.56mm


41 posted on 06/30/2016 3:16:48 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Ben Hecks
the former president "was in his own way taking the temperature of the attorney general

Would he have been using a rectal thermometer?

And Lynch returned the complement with a penile plethysmography device.

42 posted on 06/30/2016 3:24:00 PM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: Hojczyk

No, it sent the RIGHT signal to Americans that both are brazen criminals who have contempt for the citizenry and the rule of law.


43 posted on 06/30/2016 3:25:05 PM PDT by alstewartfan (I sit here by the banks of the Rhine Dipping my feet in the cold stream of time. 1934 by Al Stewart)
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To: Hojczyk

So Harry Reid vouches for her? Who wants to vouch for Harry Reid?


44 posted on 06/30/2016 3:27:08 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: Hojczyk

GWB, gave the Clinton’s a pass when he took office. I will lose respect for Trump if he doesn’t at least order his AG and staff to not drop the ball on all the cases that he (Obama) stonewalled.


45 posted on 06/30/2016 3:31:08 PM PDT by umgud (ban muslims, not guns)
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To: Hojczyk

And now the emails aren’t coming out until 2018...a couple of days after that meeting? I don’t think even our DO NOTHING CONGRESS can let this continue...or they are ALL part of it...and WE KNOW IT.


46 posted on 06/30/2016 3:35:07 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: Hojczyk

I mean, it’s not like either Bill or Lynch has a history of lying or hedging the truth, is it?


47 posted on 06/30/2016 4:10:49 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: All

48 posted on 06/30/2016 4:14:11 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: Hojczyk

I will not mourn his passing.


49 posted on 06/30/2016 4:15:32 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: fightin kentuckian

You gotta be some kind of special idiot to think otherwise.


It’s depressing. There are millions of idiots who DO believe the inane lies these people tell. Just when you think it can’t get more ridiculous, it does.


50 posted on 06/30/2016 4:15:39 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: Hojczyk

Bubba reminded Lynch-em-with-love that her career was over if Hitlery was not Pres__ent.


51 posted on 06/30/2016 4:29:39 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (If you like your part-time job, you can keep your part-time job. Vote Bolshecrat.)
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To: Hojczyk

I think it’s about damn time we send a “signal” that we are fed up with all this BS.

I just watched a flippant, cavalier, arrogant jeh johnson being questioned by Senator Cruz.

FU jeh!


52 posted on 06/30/2016 4:38:11 PM PDT by Captain7seas
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Just think of this! They could have arranged to meet on the golf course instead of at the airport. She looked so great in that dress with wide stripes showing off her huge hips. Think of how great she would have looked swinging a golf club. Why do democrat women have such horrible dress sense? Or no sense? Maybe Clinton just likes hippy women?


53 posted on 06/30/2016 4:54:16 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Hojczyk

What are the physical facts?

How did Clinton know she was there?

Was she on official business? When was here schedule known? Was it public? How did Clinton get it?

Who called who?

Did Clinton think that no one would find out? Was that the idea, stealth?

How did the local press find out?

This was more than an accident, it was coordinated.


54 posted on 06/30/2016 5:04:51 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Bill O’Reilly just had the Phoenix news guy on. He said they got the word and were ready to go with the story even before the press conference was given...No cameras, no reporters were allowed, she was being covered by FBI. Everyone was escorted off “her” plane and Clinton got on.

I found it interesting that Lynch’s answer to the question about the meeting was, “We met at the airport and talked about yada yada yada” without batting an eyelash. You just don’t start telling someone something and OFFER to tell what you were talking to the other person about before questions are even asked. That was as they say a “tell.” You might say “we met at the airport and had a pleasant conversation.” That would be the time to fill in if you so desired or thought it necessary.

I was disgusted with Greta’s coverage earlier as she pretends to be outraged and at the same time said that she knows neither Clinton or Lynch would have inappropriately discussed the investigation(s)....Then why the outrage, Greta. If it’s optics, so what? Outrage would only make sense if you BELIEVED they DID discuss the ongoing investigations into one crook’s crooked wife...you wouldn’t be bothered by the optics otherwise.


55 posted on 06/30/2016 5:29:43 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Hojczyk

Slick just wanted to remind Loretta that she is nothing more than a lowly government employee and that there will be some new Arkansas massas in the White House who will be running this joint in January.


56 posted on 06/30/2016 5:34:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Rise up America! This country can't take eight more years of Marxism and Socialism.)
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To: Hojczyk

Rest assured that Bill Clinton sent EXACTLY the message
that he intended to send to Loretta Lynch.


57 posted on 06/30/2016 5:45:16 PM PDT by Twinkie (Cowards die a thousand deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.)
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To: Hojczyk

NBC News this evening covered this controversy and assured the public that there was nothing fishy or even criminal going on.

They consulted an expert, “David Axelrod,” who said he trusts Clinton and Lynch - just the “optics” weren’t good. Interestingly, they didn’t get around to saying anything at all about who “David Axelrod” is.


58 posted on 06/30/2016 5:48:48 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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To: Hojczyk

“Attorney General Lynch” is a pretty strong subliminal message in itself ...


59 posted on 06/30/2016 5:51:00 PM PDT by x (Pundits are worthless. Remember this when sharing their articles or believing them.)
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To: Hojczyk

Sending the wrong signal? Yeh I’d say so.


60 posted on 06/30/2016 5:51:01 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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