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AG Loretta Lynch called the fallout from her 'innocuous' tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton 'painful'
Daily Mail UK ^ | December 18, 2016 | Nikki Schwab

Posted on 12/18/2016 12:31:33 PM PST by COUNTrecount

Attorney General Loretta Lynch called the fallout from her 'innocuous' tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton 'painful'

Outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she regretted taking a tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton in June

Lynch, talking to CNN's Jake Tapper, was informed that Clinton wanted to come say hi, but the conversation went longer than expected

At the time, the FBI was investigating Hillary Clinton's private email server, trying to determine if she mishandled classified information

When FBI Director James Comey said Hillary Clinton wouldn't be prosecuted several days later, conservatives suggested the meeting with Bill played a part

Lynch told Tapper she wished she would have 'seen around that corner,' as she would have pushed back on Bill Clinton's desire to meet

She didn't think her meeting with the ex-president led to Comey's decision to alert Congress of new emails, which possibly hurt Hillary Clinton't campaign

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she regretted taking a tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton, calling the political fallout from it 'painful,' as it cast doubt on the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.

She worried that it made it look like her Department of Justice wasn't playing fair.

The outgoing attorney general, who will be replaced by Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions once team Trump comes into the office, told CNN's Jake Tapper she didn't expect the chat to blow up the way that it did.

'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 said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodoj; hillary2016; hillarysemails; lynch; phoenix; soshillary; tarmac; x42
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To: howlinhound

Exactly. What did she think would happen? If you have any integrity at all you refuse the meeting and tell him to get the hell off you plane. Then you go to the press and tell everybody what he tried to do and what you did about it so you save some credibility


41 posted on 12/18/2016 1:00:20 PM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: Sasparilla

And the MenSeekingMen recognized Americans were so accustomed to in-your-face corruption from the Clintons that we didn’t expect them to explain this little meeting in any detail.

Sessions needs to make one admin crook per day apologize for their lawbreaking, so by inaug time even HRC fans won’t want to hear her name ever again.

What the media is doing is spackling over the election results for the legacy of Bill&Hill when Chelsea runs for a house seat in ‘18 or ‘20, so that her entry narrative is ‘daughter of first woman to nearly win the presidency, if it weren’t for that egregious Russian hacking that the CIA and FBI condemned.’


42 posted on 12/18/2016 1:07:41 PM PST by txhurl (Chode: a word about taglines)
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To: howlinhound

Even with all the shame and humiliation already befalling Loretta Lynch, simply because she did not see it coming, in no way excuses what she did subsequently. The right course of action would have been to order Bill Clinton off the plane immediately, but she sat down and listened to his pitch. Worse, she lied later about what was discussed.

Now Slick, we expect him to lie, it is his very lifeblood. But Loretta Lynch listened to his lies, and based her subsequent actions on the lies. Ask Libby Scooter or Martha Steward how that goes. Neither was prosecuted for what they actually did, but for being caught in a lie by Federal agents, for swearing to aspects of the incident that were in conflict with the accepted chain of events.

It is not the crime, but the cover-up, that trips up most criminal activity.


43 posted on 12/18/2016 1:08:04 PM PST by alloysteel (It is OK to use the greeting "Merry Christmas" again. Happy birthday, Jesus!)
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To: dp0622

As if identity-politics voters care about anything other than identity politics?


44 posted on 12/18/2016 1:08:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: dp0622

As if identity-politics voters care about anything other than identity politics?


45 posted on 12/18/2016 1:08:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: COUNTrecount

“Seen around that corner?”

No corner, there, AG Lynch. Straight shot of logic. Meeting with the spouse of the target of an investigation? And a spouse of such power standing?

An ordinary citizen could have seen that was a minefield. But a lawyer? The Attorney General of the United States?

What does that say about your incompetence? Or integrity?

Never mind, the questions are rhetorical.


46 posted on 12/18/2016 1:13:31 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Romans Nine
Trump is only one man who is bringing in a whole pack of pit bulls.
47 posted on 12/18/2016 1:14:47 PM PST by ASA Vet (Make US Intelligence great again!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Two former lawyers, one a two term POTUS, former governor, and the other a current attorney general had no idea this meeting was inappropriate if not illegal and the optics were devastating. Just pure BS, but let’s say they were both this innocently stupid.....no wonder this country is in trouble.


48 posted on 12/18/2016 1:16:05 PM PST by Toespi
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To: COUNTrecount
so now it is regrettable AND painful? I wonder if it is as painful as her shoes are for stuffing 400#s into a 10# sack...

Those legs are like tree trunks! Her calfs are larger than my thighs and I weigh 230#

49 posted on 12/18/2016 1:22:59 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: dp0622

That was always in the back of my mind. His anonymity would certainly have been curtailed along with, um, like, um......other activities.....


50 posted on 12/18/2016 1:23:27 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Hey LoLo, if you think the fallout was painful, wait til ya get a feel for the handcuffs and the jail cell bed. We are coming after you, and no amount of backpedaling is going to save you from the obstruction of justice conviction you will be receiving in 2017.


51 posted on 12/18/2016 1:25:00 PM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: leaning conservative

He said some wacky things on the campaign trail, didn’t he? Like obamacare sucks or the economy?


52 posted on 12/18/2016 1:25:59 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: COUNTrecount

I am convinced that between Clinton(our first black president) and Obummer(our second black president), Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, it might be a while before we see a black nominated for any of the positions of high importance in our government.


53 posted on 12/18/2016 1:26:08 PM PST by cabbieguy ("I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up")
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To: COUNTrecount

Loretta Lynch, a bird poop stain on the window of history.

Bye now.


54 posted on 12/18/2016 1:27:15 PM PST by hadaclueonce (This time I am Deplorable)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bubba blindsided her to compromise her. She never saw it coming.


I think the opposite. I think Lynch accepted the meeting so that she could compromise herself and recuse herself so she would not have to make the decision.


55 posted on 12/18/2016 1:33:20 PM PST by Mack the knife
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To: COUNTrecount
It is always about their irritation or discomfort and never about what those of us who pay their salaries insist upon for minimum ethical performance.
56 posted on 12/18/2016 1:44:54 PM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: COUNTrecount
If We the People get our way, that pain was an amuse-bouche.
57 posted on 12/18/2016 1:52:51 PM PST by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Romans Nine

God protect Trump especially from the traitors in his own party-—McConnell, Ryan, McCain, Graham, and the whole GOP-e apparatus.


58 posted on 12/18/2016 1:59:41 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: ASA Vet

And hopefully those pitbulls don’t loose their teeth.


59 posted on 12/18/2016 2:01:00 PM PST by Romans Nine
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To: COUNTrecount

My belief is a cumulative effect grew, over emails, this meeting, deplorables remark, and everything else.


60 posted on 12/18/2016 2:06:20 PM PST by truth_seeker
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