Halperin: Clinton Met With Lynch Because He’s a ‘Really Social Guy’

Kyle Drennen | July 1, 2016
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

Appearing on NBC’s Today on Friday, Bloomberg Politics editor Mark Halperin offered a laughably naive explanation for Bill Clinton’s controversial meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch: “The most obvious explanation and probably the right one, is Bill Clinton is a really social guy...”

He cast Clinton and Lynch as celebrities who just ran into each other: “And we’ve all seen situations where famous people on the tarmac, the two planes, it's kind of fun, ‘Hey, let's go over and visit.’” He acknowledged: “Someone – Bill Clinton or Loretta Lynch – or someone who worked for them standing there should have said, ‘This is the wrong time for a social meeting.’ The fact that it was 30 minutes is arousing a lot of suspicion....That's a long time.”

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