Trump says if Clinton isn’t charged, system is ‘rigged’

Trump was in the middle of a stream of tweets about the inappropriateness of Bill Clinton’s private meeting last week with Attorney General Loretta Lynch when he seized on a CNN report claiming that no charges will be announced.

The former secretary of state met with the FBI for three and half hours Saturday in connection with the probe.

“It is impossible for the FBI not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton,” Trump tweeted. “What she did was wrong! What Bill did was stupid!”

The presumptive Republican nominee then reacted to the CNN report without naming it.

“It was just announced — by sources — that no charges will be brought against Crooked Hillary Clinton,” Trump tweeted. Like I said, the system is totally rigged!”

If Clinton faces any charges, it will be a major blow to her presidential campaign and will reinforce voters’ concerns — expressed even by Democrats in primary exit polls this year — that she is untrustworthy.

Should the FBI opt not to indict, there will be questions of whether she benefited from her political connections while others in similar situations, such as Gen. David Petraeus, faced the consequences.

These allegations will be given greater weight by the appearance of impropriety in her husband’s meeting with Lynch. But she was also endorsed by President Obama, who has also defended her use of a private email server.

Congressional Republicans have been clamoring for the appointment of an independent special prosecutor to look into the matter. Trump has frequently argued that the political system, from the two parties primary processes to the benefits given to the well connected, is “rigged.”