Everyone from the FBI to Bill Clinton seemed intent on giving Hillary Clinton’s months-old e-mail scandal fresh legs last week. Now Hillary herself is getting in on the act.

The FBI interviewed Hillary on Saturday, leading many to believe the investigation is drawing toward its climax.

Also, earlier in the week, Bill met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on her plane at the Phoenix airport for what they billed as an informal chat. The move sparked bipartisan protests, with even left-leaning CNN describing it as “a stunning act of bravado,” since Lynch’s office is supposed to be impartially investigating Hillary’s handling of sensitive government emails. Lynch on Friday, followed by Bill Clinton’s own office, concede the meeting was bad optics and they wouldn’t repeat it.

And now Hillary has let drop that she is considering keeping Lynch on as attorney general if elected president. Isn’t that precious? Lynch is said to have the final say about whether charges will be brought against Hillary, so dangling another term as attorney general in front of her is, at worst, a quid pro quo offer: You go easy on me; I’ll keep you on as AG. At best it’s an utterly tone-deaf announcement given the trust issues that have dogged Hillary’s presidential candidacy.

Damage Control and the Donald

Perhaps in an effort to limit the damage from a week of bad press, surrogates for Hillary and President Barack Obama were dispatched over the weekend to defend Hillary’s trustworthiness. Vice President Joe Biden did the same on Friday, and Obama is expected to do so at his first campaign appearance with Clinton, Tuesday in North Carolina.

Hillary claimed not to have known anything about the Bill/Loretta airport meeting until she heard about it in the press. GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump was having none of it, issuing multiple tweets calling into question the Lynch/Clinton spin on the affair:

Only a fool would believe that the meeting between Bill Clinton and the U.S.A.G. was not arranged or that Crooked Hillary did not know.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2016

Crooked Hillary Clinton knew that her husband wanted to meet with the U.S.A.G. to work out a deal. The system is totally rigged & corrupt!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2016

Does anybody really believe that Bill Clinton and the U.S.A.G. talked only about "grandkids" and golf for 37 minutes in plane on tarmac?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2016

The SECRET meeting between Bill Clinton and the U.S.A.G. in back of closed plane was heightened with FBI shouting "go away, no pictures."

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2016

A Paper Trail on Fire

Then there’s this today from the New York Post:

Hillary Clinton’s closest aide revealed in a deposition last week that her boss destroyed at least some of her schedules as secretary of state — a revelation that could complicate matters for the presumptive Democratic nominee, who, along with the State Department she ran, is facing numerous lawsuits seeking those public records.

According to the Post, a former State Department official called it “unprecedented for a diplomat to destroy a schedule like this.” The article continues:

“I spent eight years at the State Department and watched as four US ambassadors and two secretaries of state shared their daily schedules with a variety of State Department employees and US officials,” said Richard Grenell, former diplomat and US spokesman at the United Nations.

“I’ve never seen anyone put their schedule in the burn bag — because every one of them had a state.gov email address and therefore their daily schedules became public records, as required by law.”

Investigation Out With a Bang … or a Whimper?

Over the weekend, CNN cited anonymous law enforcement officials who said the expectation is Clinton will not face charges for how she handled her email account while secretary of state. However, syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt argued on Twitter and in The Washington Examiner that such expectations are premature, given Clinton’s Saturday interview and other factors.

Hewitt concluded:

Secretary Clinton broke all those rules. Then she spirited away all her emails in contravention of the law. Then she destroyed what she should not have destroyed, obfuscated and outright lied about all of it.

That’s what we know. We don’t know if she or her close associates will be charged. But we do know she shouldn’t be president.

CNN’s sources said the investigation would wrap up in the next two weeks.