Attorney General Loretta Lynch opposed FBI Director James Comey's decision to alert Congress that there is potentially more evidence concerning Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server because the Department of Justice is trying to protect the Democratic nominee, Donald Trump said Saturday.
"There are those, and I happen to be one of them, who think Hillary offered Loretta Lynch a reappointment as attorney general," Trump told an afternoon rally in Golden, Colorado, just hours after news broke that Lynch and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates opposed him making the investigation public.
Lynch made the decision to follow Comey's initial recommendation against prosecuting Clinton for the email server after meeting on her plane in Arizona with former President Bill Clinton, pointed out Trump while ridiculing the meeting.
"He was on the plane for 39 minutes ... there are those that think that when he went on to the plane, that's what they discussed," Trump said. "Just prior to a decision being made. He said it was to play golf but he never played, and I think it was over 109 degrees out."
Clinton had said he went across the tarmac to meet with Lynch, but Trump said he doesn't think "that is legal," and that he's never had anyone walk off a runway and into his plane.
"Right after that, she made that decision and boy did that cause ripples within the FBI," Trump said. "Boy, oh, boy, now, the attorney general is fighting the FBI because the FBI finally did what was right, but also something that should have been done a long time ago."
And the investigation came because of emails found on the server of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who is now separated from wife Huma Abedin, one of Clinton's closest aides.
"They found them by looking at Anthony Weiner, a major, major, major sleaze," said Trump. "They found what may be some of the 33,000 missing and deleted e-mails. Isn't that nice? That Hillary tried so desperately to destroy, even going so far as using systems that most people have never heard of."
Now, Trump said, he wonders if she'll keep Abedin, who "has been a problem."
"I hope they haven't given Huma immunity," said Trump. "It seems that everybody that walked down that sidewalk got immunity ... she knows the real story. She knows what's going on."
The sad thing, he continued, is "how can you have all of this incredible, confidential, secret information and have your top person married to this guy? That's the way life works."
The complaints are coming, said Trump, while "this whole thing should have been over with a year ago. She is so guilty."
And the evidence, which Comey has yet to identify, is likely "overwhelming," as the FBI director wouldn't have announced it if it was nothing, Trump said.
"This is the lowest point in terms of our judicial system," he said. "This is the lowest point in the history of our country. When I talk about a rigged system, let's see what happens."
The stakes for the election "could not be higher," because "a vote for Hillary is a vote to surrender our government to public corruption, graft and cronyism that threatens the very foundations of our constitutional system," said Trump.
Such public corruption, he argued, "spreads out like a cancer and infects the operations of government, itself. If the corruption is not removed, then the people are not able to have faith in their government."
Trump told the crowd that there are "amazing people in the FBI," and he wanted to tell the crowd, "I'll bet you, without any knowledge, there was a revolt in the FBI. I bet you there was a revolt in the FBI by what they allowed to happen with respect to Hillary Clinton. There was a revolt. I can be pretty sure of it."
But when people like Clinton, who like other powerful people "can get away with anything, because they have the money and the connections to rig the system, then the laws toward moral authority no longer exist." said Trump.
He continued that he was an insider for a long time, despite his current outsider stance, and he understands the system.
"Talk about an insider, outsider, who is more of an insider than me," said Trump. "I understood what was going on. I love this country. Our country was going in the wrong direction. We weren't going to have a country any longer."
Trump also admitted another thing: He hated the viral phrase "drain the swamp."
"I said, that's so corny. I said, then, I went and said it, half-heartedly said it, and the place went crazy," said Trump. "Frank Sinatra didn't love 'My Way.' He sang it and saw what was happening and it became the biggest, and he ended up loving it like crazy."