--- title: Donald Trump Accuses Clinton of Bribery in Email Probe description: Trump slammed Clinton and Obama's campaign appearance and railed against the FBI's recommendation not to bring criminal charges against her canonical: https://time.com/4394225/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bribery-email-investigation/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-06T00:47:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:03:52.734Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Accuses Clinton of Bribery in Email Investigation og:description: Trump also had words of praise for Saddam Hussein og:url: https://time.com/4394225/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bribery-email-investigation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f2da84955226960/69889ac3196cf4117403c4ac/donald-trump-raleigh.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: donald-trump-raleigh og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Accuses Clinton of Bribery in Email Investigation twitter:description: Trump also had words of praise for Saddam Hussein twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8f2da84955226960/69889ac3196cf4117403c4ac/donald-trump-raleigh.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Accuses Hillary Clinton of Bribery in Email Investigation > Sponsored content. 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But if she loses, I’m out of a job.’ It’s a bribe. It’s a disgrace.” Lynch [said Friday](http://time.com/4390961/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-fbi-email-probe/?iid=sr-link1) that she would accept the FBI and prosecutors’ recommendation on charges related to the investigation of Clinton’s private email server. On Tuesday, FBI director James Comey recommended that there be [no criminal charges against Clinton](http://time.com/4393271/james-comey-fbi-hillary-clinton-email/?xid=homepage), despite finding her conduct to be “extremely careless.” Trump also accused Obama of being in on the conspiracy. “He’s campaigning and this was set up a long time ago, and he knew that the FBI was going to do this because it would have been very uncomfortable for him to campaign with her actually if they didn’t take a pass on crooked Hillary,” Trump said. “So they take a pass, they announce they’re not going to press charges, lo and behold, a few hours later, let’s have a press conference, let’s do a speech together.” [Multiple](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fbi-email-comey.html?%5Fr=0) [outlets](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton/fbi-recommends-no-criminal-charges-against-hillary-clinton-n603926) reported that the White House had no advance warning on the FBI’s decision. Trump called on voters to see Clinton’s email controversy as evidence of poor decisionmaking. “Stupidity is not a reason that you’re going to be innocent, and I don’t happen to believe it was stupidity,” Trump said. “Look at her judgment on emails,” he continued. “Who would do it? Look at her judgment. Her judgment is horrible.” He said Clinton “put the entire country in danger.” Trump spent most of his speech railing against the former Secretary of State and the President, tying them together in his pitch to voters for change. “The last thing we need is an Obama-Clinton in the White House,” he said. On terrorism, Trump also seemed to praise former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. “Saddam Hussein was a bad guy,” Trump said. “But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. 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