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For the Record: Trump mulls over TSA workers who wear ‘hibby jobbies'

Josh Hafner   | Paste BN

As the Fourth of July weekend begins, we think of freedom in its many forms.

The freedom to say “I understand that” when a woman mocks Muslims at your rally, if you’re Donald Trump.

The freedom to meet privately with the official who’s investigating your wife, if you’re Bill Clinton.

The freedom to not know why Ben Franklin is on that $100 bill you just blew on Miller Lite and fireworks, if you’re like most Americans.

All that nonsense and more in today’s For the Record, the freest politics newsletter from Paste BN.

Woman decries ‘hibby jobbies’ at Trump rally

At Donald Trump’s New Hampshire rally on Thursday, a woman took the microphone to decry Transportation Security Administration workers who wear “hibby jobbies,” a wildly ignorant mispronunciation of “hijabs,” or Muslim head scarves. The jobs of TSA members wearing hijabs, she said, should go to veterans.

Trump’s response: “I understand” and “we are looking at that.”

Here’s the exchange, per NBC’s video:

Woman: Why aren’t we putting our military retirees on that border or in TSA? Get rid of all these hibby jobbies they wear at TSA. I’ve seen them myself.

Trump: I understand that. Yeah.

Woman: We need the veterans back in there to take it. They’ve fought for this country and defended it. They’ll still do it. Thank you.

Trump: And we are looking at that. We’re looking at a lot of things.

The TSA, you may know, currently gives preference to veterans in its hiring process. And the U.S. military includes some 5,000 Muslims. But we presume Trump’s already looked at that. He’s looking at a lot of things.

This looks … not good for Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton met Monday with Loretta Lynch, the woman who happens to be overseeing the federal investigation of his wife. And many folks thought it seemed sketchy, at best.

Lynch, who decides the outcome of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, was peppered Thursday with questions about the meeting.

She had “no discussion” of any investigation with Clinton, she told reporters.

"I did see President Clinton at the Phoenix airport as I was leaving, and he spoke to myself and my husband on the plane,'' Lynch said. "Our conversation was a great deal about his grandchildren. It was primarily social and about our travels.''

There you have it: Just grandkids and travels and definitely not the server-sized elephant in the room, she said. Even so, the two caught flak from Republicans and Democrats.

This week in Trump haters: France’s president and a top Tea Party senator

You’d expect France’s prez to not like Trump, but Francois Hollande went a step further Thursday by explicitly endorsing Hillary Clinton. Per Politico, Hollande criticized Trump for sparking “fear of waves of immigrants, the stigmatization of Islam, the questioning of representative democracy” in Les Echos, a French newspaper.

The same day, Tea Party favorite Sen. Mike Lee of Utah listed a barrage of reasons why he hasn’t endorsed Trump including “some statements that some have identified correctly as religiously intolerant.”

More from the campaign trail:

Are you smarter than an immigrant?

A new poll finds more than half (64%) of all Americans don’t know why Ben Franklin is considered a founding father. No, it’s not because of electricity.

The survey showed how 2,000 Americans fared against questions from a U.S. citizenship exam. Fun fact: More Republicans got a perfect score (40%) than did Democrats (33%).

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