U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says she has never talked to President Obama about Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.
“We’ve never discussed the Clinton case,” she told Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace. “I’ve never spoken about it with the president or really with anyone at the White House.”
“That’s not the kind of relationship I have with the people there and it would be inappropriate to do so,” she said.
Lynch was responding to Wallace’s prodding over what she talked about with Obama after he endorsed Clinton as the Democratic nominee. Lynch had met with the president after the endorsement.
The Justice Department is looking into Clinton’s use of a private email server for her official business as secretary of state. An inspector general report said it was inappropriate, and the FBI is probing whether she violated any laws.
Wallace also prodded Lynch on whether or not there is a “conflict of interest” in her investigating Clinton, given that the attorney general is a political appointee of the president.
“I don’t get involved on whom the president endorses,” Lynch said. “I don’t have any comments … on any of the candidates.”
“The investigation into the State Department email matter is going to be handled like any other matter.”
Lynch said there are career agents investigating the case. “They will follow the facts and follow the evidence to wherever it leads and come to a conclusion,” Lynch said.
