Donald Trump said he is convinced Attorney General Loretta Lynch is trying to protect Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
“Now its reported today, this morning, that the Department of Justice was fighting the FBI,” Trump said, referring to news accounts that Lynch had questioned the way FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers that he looking back into an investigation into Clinton because of newly uncovered emails.
“That’s because the Department of Justice is trying so hard to protect Hillary,” Trump told a crowd Saturday in Golden, Colo.
He said he thinks Lynch is coming to Clinton’s defense over promises made about her reappointment as attorney general under a Clinton White House.
“There are those, and I happen to be one of them, who think Hillary offered Loretta Lynch a reappointment as attorney general,” he said.
Trump also referred to reports that show nearly all Justice Department employees are Clinton supporters.
“It was reported that 97 percent of the Department of Justice’s employees, in terms of the their presidential contributions, went to Hillary Clinton,” Trump said, “which means they don’t like me too much.”
