Rubio: Clinton-Lynch meeting ‘raises all sorts of red flags’

Sen. Marco Rubio is slamming Attorney General Loretta Lynch for her private meeting with Bill Clinton this week, calling it “a real lack of judgment on both their parts.”

Lynch has faced a wave of criticism for the meeting, which comes as the FBI decides whether to indict Hillary Clinton over her private email server.

{mosads}“The notion that the prosecutor, the person who runs the Justice Department, would spend 30 minutes of private conversation with the spouse of someone her department is investigating raises all sorts of red flags,” Rubio (R-Fla.) said Friday on 610 WIOD’s “South Florida News First.”

“A sitting attorney general, a former U.S. president, who by the way is an attorney himself, knew or should have known that looked terrible, shouldn’t have happened,” he added, noting that even some Democrats are criticizing Lynch and Bill Clinton for the meeting.

Rubio said the incident shows the Clinton family’s longstanding disregard for moral boundaries.

“I think it testifies to something broader, which is total arrogance that they can do whatever they want, that the rules don’t apply to them,” he said.

“This has been par the course with the Clintons for 30 years. Whether it’s the emails or Bill Clinton’s time in the White House or that meeting in the airport the other day.”

Bill Clinton met privately with Lynch on Monday evening on the tarmac at Phoenix’s airport. The two say they discussed their families, recent travels and sports.

Critics say the meeting raises the specter of bias in the Justice Department’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server during her time as secretary of State.

Lynch on Friday said she would not have spoken with Clinton if she could revisit her original choice.

“I certainly wouldn’t do it again, because I think it has cast a shadow over what it should not, over what it will not touch,” she said.