New book: Bill Clinton plotted to ‘bushwhack’ Loretta Lynch at airport to ensure no prosecution over emails
According to Edward Klein’s new book, “Guilty as Sin,” former President Bill Clinton plotted to “bushwack” Loretta Lynch to ensure that Hillary would not face prosecution over her misuse of classified email.
An excerpt published Monday at the New York Post reads, in part:
Bill Clinton’s private jet was cleared for takeoff and was taxiing toward the active runway at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport when a Secret Service agent informed him that Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s plane was coming in for a landing.
“Don’t take off!” Bill barked.
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As his plane skidded to a halt and then headed back to its parking space, Bill grabbed a phone and called an old friend — one of his most trusted legal advisers.
It was June 27, 2016 — one year into the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
“Bill said, ‘I want to bushwhack Loretta,’ ” the adviser recalled. “ ‘I’m going to board her plane. What do you think?’ And I said, ‘There’s no downside for you, but she’s going to take a pounding if she’s crazy enough to let you on her plane.’
“He knew it would be a huge embarrassment to Loretta when people found out that she had talked to the husband of a woman — the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party — who was under criminal investigation by the FBI,” the adviser continued. “But he didn’t give a damn. He wanted to intimidate Loretta and discredit [FBI Director James] Comey’s investigation of Hillary’s emails, which was giving Hillary’s campaign agita.”
Clinton then ordered a Secret Service agent to contact Lynch and let her know he wanted to meet her, Klein said.
And it seems that Lynch was not comfortable with the meeting at all:
“Bill said he could tell that Loretta knew from the get-go that she’d made a huge mistake,” his adviser said. “She was literally trembling, shaking with nervousness. Her husband tried to comfort her; he kept patting her hand and rubbing her back.
“Bill made small talk about golf and grandchildren and [former Attorney General] Janet Reno, and he kept at it for nearly a half-hour. It didn’t make any difference what they talked about; all he wanted to do was send a message to everyone at Justice and the FBI that Hillary had the full weight of the Clinton machine, the Democratic Party, and the White House behind her.
“It was clearly tortuous for Loretta. Bill told me later that he noticed there were beads of sweat on her upper lip.”
And it turns out that Lynch thought FBI Director James Comey was going to actually announce an indictment as he laid out the case against her.
He said that Hillary and her top aides at the State Department — Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jake Sullivan — had been “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”
On and on he went, for a full 10 minutes, making an iron-clad case that Hillary was guilty of gross negligence in her handling of classified material, and that she had violated a federal statute that did not require evidence of intent to prove her guilty.
Attorney General Lynch sat in her office, along with her top aides, watching Comey deliver his blistering rebuke of Hillary Clinton.
Lynch had promised President Obama and Valerie Jarrett that Hillary would not be indicted. But here was the director of the FBI on national TV laying out what appeared to be an unassailable case for prosecuting her.
How could this have happened? What had gone wrong? Would she be forced to resign?
All these thoughts went through Lynch’s mind, as she later recalled to a friend, as she listened to Comey drone on.
Comey then dropped the bombshell — that Hillary had escaped prosecution for actions that would get others put behind bars.
“Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” Comey said.
“Hillary was clearly guilty as sin, and the right thing would have been for Comey not only to say so — which he did — but to make her pay for her sins,” Klein wrote.
“But he didn’t.”
You can see Klein talk about the scandal on Fox News below:
And now Clinton — perhaps the most evil person ever nominated to the White House by a major political party — is thisclose to becoming president.
The entire excerpt is well worth reading.
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