Former US President Bill Clinton’s secret meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch amid a federal probe into former first lady Hillary Clinton’s email case has spurred bipartisan questions, forcing Lynch to step back from the case.
The private meeting took place this week at the Phoenix airport, when Clinton found out that Lynch was there, people familiar with the matter told American media.
The two then spoke for 20 minutes in Lynch’s government jet, in the presence of Lynch’s husband.
The meeting was apparently not scheduled as Lynch was in the city to meet with local police departments, while the former president had attended a fundraising event for his wife’s presidential campaign. She is running as the presumptive Democratic nominee.
In a press conference on Tuesday, Lynch denied addressing the email case in the meeting, saying that she only talked about…