{"id":253993,"date":"2016-07-05T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T10:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-clintons-secret-meeting-with-loretta-lynch-sparks-suspicions-over-hillary-email-scandal\/"},"modified":"2016-07-05T20:27:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T20:27:38","slug":"bill-clintons-secret-meeting-with-loretta-lynch-sparks-suspicions-over-hillary-email-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/bill-clintons-secret-meeting-with-loretta-lynch-sparks-suspicions-over-hillary-email-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton\u2019s secret meeting with Loretta Lynch sparks suspicions over Hillary email scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s husband and former President Bill Clinton met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on her private plane on Monday evening, sparking suspicions that the two discussed Hillary\u2019s email server investigation, although Lynch denies this.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Loretta Lynch says her meeting with Bill Clinton in a Private plane in Phoenix is no problem. If true, this is not a very smart woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chuckwoolery\/status\/748369268698415104\">June 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Does Loretta Lynch&#8217;a actions in meeting with Bill Clinton when HRC is still under FBI investigation amount to an appearance of impropriety?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronald B. Saunders (@BlackBuzzNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackBuzzNews\/status\/748470653234331648\">June 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Justice Department and the FBI are investigating the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee&#8217;s\u00a0use of a private, personal server during her time as secretary of state, and rumors of an indictment before the general election continue to circle.<\/p>\n<p>The two met on board Lynch\u2019s plane at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and had a private meeting that spanned about 30 minutes, ABC15 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc15.com\/news\/region-phoenix-metro\/central-phoenix\/loretta-lynch-bill-clinton-meet-privately-in-phoenix\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton was at the airport to board a flight but when he learned that Lynch was on her way to the airport, he decided to wait for her.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bill Clinton was quoted as saying &#8220;I did not have legal relations with that woman&#8221;, after leaving a meeting with AG Loretta Lynch.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Cimbrelo (@Bill_Cimbrelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bill_Cimbrelo\/status\/748345746647302145\">June 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>When asked about the unorthodox meeting at a press conference, Lynch described the conversation as being largely about grandchildren and said it <em>\u201cwas primarily social, about our travels and he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The meeting took place hours before the House Select Committee\u2019s Benghazi report was made public.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere was no discussion on any matter pending before the department or any matter pending with any other body, there was no discussion of Benghazi, no discussion of State Department emails, by way of example I would say it was current news of the day, the Brexit decision and what it would mean,\u201d<\/em> Lynch told the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/loretta-lynch\">appointed<\/a> US attorney for New York\u2019s Eastern District by Bill Clinton in 1999, and was made attorney general under Barack Obama in 2014.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">AG Loretta Lynch is not going to resign, but she should recuse herself, if she feels secret meetings with Bill are appropriate right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deirdre (@Deir_in_DC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Deir_in_DC\/status\/748339397251129344\">June 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clinton aides explained the unscheduled visit as a <em>&#8220;courtesy&#8221;<\/em> that he extends to dignitaries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/videos\/loretta-lynch-defends-private-clinton-meeting\/\">reported<\/a> CBS, who also pointed to the fact that Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation are <em>\u201ctangentially involved\u201d<\/em> in the investigation and described the<em> \u201cappearance of impropriety\u201d<\/em> as<em> \u201cstunning.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/349029-clinton-lynch-airplane-meeting\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s husband and former President Bill Clinton met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on her private plane on Monday evening, sparking suspicions that the two discussed Hillary\u2019s email server investigation, although Lynch denies this. Loretta Lynch says her meeting with Bill Clinton in a Private plane in Phoenix is no problem. If true, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}