It's not Monday yet.

[Jim Lane]

16. That's a hoax. Lynch said no such thing.

My first reaction to the quotation was that it was inconceivable to me that Lynch would actually say that. If you go to Facebook, it's obvious that some right-winger simply opened an account as "Loretta Lynch, Attorney General". The posts by that account rely on such sources as The Weekly Standard and Breitbart.

As you'd expect, major obsessions are transphobia and Islamophobia. As an example of the former, on May 11 there was a post linking to an article on "redflagnews.com" about the North Carolina bathroom fracas, in response to which this supposed "Loretta Lynch" posted:

Loretta Lynch and the entire Democrat Party make progress towards ending the quaint, antiquated and artificial nonsense of separate bathrooms for men and women.

Come on, "Democrat Party"? and the old anti-ERA standby of unisex bathrooms? They're not even being very creative.

Incidentally, I'd never before heard of redflagnews.com, but feel free to go there if you want to read how "Obama Imports 1 Million Muslims During Presidency" and "FBI Says No One Killed at Sandy Hook". I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the real Loretta Lynch doesn't rely on or even read this site.

The particular post supposedly assuring all that Clinton won't be indicted links to this article in The Weekly Standard, but even that right-wing rag says no such thing. It merely notes an upcoming meeting between the President and the Attorney General (imagine that), and says, "The topic of Obama's closed door meeting with Lynch has not been made public." In fact, the article reports the administration's position as being pretty much the opposite of what this post claims:

White House press secretary Josh Earnest insisted that President Obama's endorsement of Hillary Clinton will not "sway" the ongoing FBI investigation into Clinton.

I'm not familiar with Sourceplanet but they got played big-time.