M. Scott Mahaskey Trump: Bill Clinton 'opened up a Pandora's box'

Bill Clinton “opened up a Pandora’s box” when he met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch earlier this week on the tarmac of the Phoenix airport, Donald Trump said Friday, suggesting that the two did not discuss just golf and grandchildren.

The meeting, which Lynch said had cast a “shadow” over the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state and something she “certainly wouldn’t do again,” is a “very serious thing,” Trump told attendees of the Western Conservative Summit in Denver.


“And as you know, Hillary is so guilty. She’s so guilty, I mean you can read ’em off right here. And how that’s not being pursued properly and I think that he really — I think he really opened it up. He opened up a Pandora’s box, and it shows what’s going on, and it shows what’s happening with our laws and with our government,” Trump continued. “But if you think that he just happened to be at the airport because nobody really — and he may have, honestly, he may have left and gone someplace, but it seems like he was talking about golf and grandchildren,” he said, in reference to Lynch’s account of the meeting. The attorney general on Friday said that she and Clinton also discussed former Attorney General Janet Reno.

“I love my grandchildren so much. But if I talk about ’em for more than nine or 10 seconds, what are we? I love my grandchildren. I love that one, I love that one, I love, love, love that one,” Trump said, mimicking pointing out individual grandchildren. “And look at the beautiful — I love these kids. After that, what are you going to say? Right? I love those kids. They’re the great — hey. I love my children. I love my children.”

Trump then said that four of his children — Donald Jr., Eric, Ivanka and Tiffany — as well as his wife, Melania, will all be speaking at this month's Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

“We’re going to have a great time. And then you have to talk about golf for the rest of the time,” Trump cracked. “I love golf but after talking for a couple of minutes, it’s hard to talk about it much longer, though.”