Clinton is both a very smart and a very politically savvy man.  It follows that one theory regarding why he chose to board Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s plane last week to hold a private meeting with her is completely implausible.  That would be the idea that he was merely being thoughtless and naïve, and didn’t realize how terrible the meeting would look, given that it’s Lynch’s job to make the ultimate decision regarding whether to charge his wife over the email imbroglio.
Clinton knew exactly what he was doing, and he was well aware that his behavior would set off a firestorm of criticism.  So why did he do it?  Here are three possible explanations:
Theory #1: The subtle pressure gambit
On this account, Bill Clinton was trying to bring subtle psychological pressure on Lynch, apparently through the sheer force of his personality.  What’s attractive about this theory is that it’s the simplest and most straightforward explanation for his behavior.  What’s problematic about it is that it would be a really stupid thing to try to do, and again, Bill Clinton is a lot of things, but he’s always been a long ways from stupid:

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