Donald Trump Accuses Hillary Clinton of Bribery in Email Investigation

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Time

Taking the stage in North Carolina just hours after Hillary Clinton and President Obama left the state, Donald Trump slammed the duo’s joint campaign appearance and accused Clinton of bribing Attorney General Loretta Lynch for favorable treatment in her email investigation.

“It’s a bribe,” Trump said of Clinton reportedly being open to keeping Lynch on as attorney general. “I mean the attorney general is sitting there saying, if I get Hillary off the hook, I’m going to have four more years or eight more years. But if she loses, I’m out of a job. It’s a bribe. It’s a disgrace.”

Lynch said Friday that she would accept the FBI and prosecutors’ recommendation on charges related to the investigation of Clinton’s private email server. On Tuesday, FBI director James Comey recommended that there be no criminal charges against Clinton, despite finding her conduct to be “extremely careless.”

Trump also accused Obama of being in on the conspiracy. “He’s campaigning and this was set up a long time ago, and he knew that the FBI was going to do this because it would have been very uncomfortable for him to campaign with her actually if they didn’t take a pass on crooked Hillary,” Trump said. “So they take a pass, they announce they’re not going to press charges, lo and behold, a few hours later, let’s have a press conference, let’s do a speech together.”


Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics?ocid=iehp

[Kingofalldems]

1. So he just accused the AG and the head of the FBI of taking a bribe?

How low can he go? Is he that insane?

[PJMcK]

6. Yep (n/t)

[herding cats]

11. He's a clueless twit.

I'm pretty sure Twitter is what he uses for his daily briefing. I'm willing to bet he doesn't even realize the DOJ and the FBI aren't the same entity. Just like a lot of posters on Twitter don't know.

Not to mention an investigation of this length has a paper trail a mile long showing which way it was heading for months!

Stupid people make my head hurt. A stupid GOP candidate for president makes my head hurt AND gives me ulcers!

[notawinger]

2. In a word

Yes

[RBInMaine]

3. He's a crazy nutcase and belongs in a straight jacket and a muzzle.

[63splitwindow]

4. Anyone who doesn't understand that she could make WAAAAY more money elsewhere...

with FAAAR less headache is a Don the Con devotee from the gitgo. IQ hovering just below 100 or less. If Don the Con could speak to a higher intellect----- he would. He can't.

[C_U_L8R]

5. He keeps using that word

but I do not think it means what he thinks it means.

[PSPS]

7. The longer Trump is in primary mode, the worse he's going to lose.

It's remarkable to me that he's so stuck in primary mode. Everything he says is tailored exclusively to his "base." Nothing he says will sway anyone, let alone anyone not already in his corner.

But, given his personality disorder, he's doomed to continue on this route because it's all he knows. All his life, he's been the kid that habitually says anything outlandish merely to keep the spotlight on him. While it certainly works with the freakshow-obsessed media, it won't garner any votes beyond his minuscule "base."

[WhiteTara]

8. Isn't that slander or libel? How can he

just say those things and get away with it?

[Odin2005]

22. Those rules often don't apply to political speech against public figures.

Otherwise it would be way to easy to silence political opposition by accusing them of slander, which is a common tactic by authoritarian governments trying to pass as democratic.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. I'm the Man with Orange Hair

I see things that are not there

Delusions, delusions everywhere

[bucolic_frolic]

24. The Real Conspiracy is in Voter Suppression

All over GOP states and legislatures, it's a
RICO level political act, their fingerprints are all over it

[MariaThinks]

10. trump will lie and lie about everything

[BadGimp]

12. Time for the..

[cstanleytech]

13. I wonder how long it's been since Trump had a CAT scan because it sounds

like he should make another appointment.

[63splitwindow]

14. He lies from one sentence to the next...

"...
...
"I'm not knocking the attorney general," Trump said, only to directly knock Lynch in his next sentences:

"What I'm saying is how can you say that? It's a bribe. The attorney general is sitting there saying, 'If I get Hillary off the hook, I'm going to have more years or eight more years, but if she loses I'm out of a job.' It's a bribe. It's a disgrace."
...
... "

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/n-c-rally-trump-calls-fbi-decision-tragedy-accuses-clinton-n604396

[cstanleytech]

15. Trump had better be careful as just because he is running for office does not make him immune from

being sued for defamation.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. This is the standard "theory" making the rounds in the core T and hard right base.

Amp it up. Make tRump double down on this kind of nonsense. Make him foam at the mouth like Ted Nugent and Alex Jones.

[BlueMTexpat]

17. One thing that I find very interesting is

that GOPers like Trump project their own failings on anyone they don't like. If they're saying something bad about someone else, then they've likely done it themselves.

So I suspect that even a half-hearted investigation could find at least one instance where Trump himself has bribed officials.

[jberryhill]

18. "But if she loses, I’m out of a job"

Now that's funny shit right there.

The US Attorney General can walk right out of that job into a partnership at any top shelf law firm in the country, for a buttload more than the AG's salary.

This guy is one of the most astoundingly clueless people I have ever seen running for president.

[gaspee]

19. He has slandered her many times

I wish it would be practical to sue his ass, but it's not. He is inciting these people and this country will be even more ungovernable after she wins. The Obama attacks are going to seem to have been nothing compare to what they are going to do to Clinton. He is practically inciting riots with the rhetoric he uses.

The worst part is that people fall for it. They believe the stupidest shit that anyone with half a brain could figure out is blatant lies.

[RBInMaine]

20. Typical right wing conspiracy theory INSANITY.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. You folks miss just how well such a crazy claim will resonate

among the peoples. Said loud enough, often enough and with enough conviction, it will become the truth. In their minds.


We can thank Bill Clinton for making this worse.

[Odin2005]

23. Conspiracy stupidity.

[leftyladyfrommo]

25. That['s most likely what he would have done.

He bribes people to get what he wants. So it would be natural for him to think that everyone does that..

Textbook narcissistic sociopath. They can get away with it for a while but pretty soon all their stories and lies begin to catch up with them.

[leftofcool]

26. Saddam Hussein lover says what?