Bill Clinton 'offended' by accusations he was trying to influence Loretta Lynch
by Pete Kasperowicz
| June 14, 2018 03:46 PM
Former President Bill Clinton told the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General that he was offended when many in the press accused him of trying to influence the investigation into his wife's private email server.
Bill Clinton in 2016 met with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in Phoenix, Ariz. Both Bill Clinton and Lynch said they didn't discuss the ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton.
But many Republicans and conservatives said the former president could have been trying to put his thumb on the scale in the investigation of his wife. Bill Clinton told the IG he was mad when those accusations were made.
"I thought, you know, I don’t know whether I’m more offended that they think I'm crooked or that they think I'm stupid," Bill Clinton said in his interview with the IG.
"I've got an idea, I'll do all these things they accuse me of doing in broad daylight in an airport in Phoenix when the whole world can see it in front of an Air Force One crew and I believe one of her security guards," Bill Clinton said after being asked if he discussed the investigation into his wife or Lynch taking a job in a Hillary Clinton administration. "It was an interesting proposition, but no we did not."
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