ABC 33/40 news anchor Christopher Sign, the reporter who broke the June 2016 story about the secret meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a Phoenix tarmac, was found dead in his Alabama home Saturday morning.
According to AL.com, police suspect it was a suicide:
Veteran TV newsman and former University of Alabama football player Christopher Sign died Saturday morning in an apparent suicide, according to police.At 8:13 a.m. Saturday, the Hoover 911 center received a call of a person down at a residence on Scout Trace. Hoover police and fire personnel arrived to find the 45-year-old Sign dead.Hoover police Lt. Keith Czeskleba said the death is being investigated as a suicide.
People who worked with Sign over the years during his reporting days at KNXV-TV Phoenix and ABC 33/40 Alabama were understandably shocked and saddened by the news:
Sign, who worked in Phoenix for 11 years before returning to ABC 33/40 in 2017, wrote a book that was released in January 2020 which included more details about the Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting:
The promotional write-up on his website about the book alluded to why it was so important that the full story be told:
No cameras, no microphones, no prying eyes and plenty of security. The setting for a clandestine meeting could not have been better. Former President Bill Clinton exited Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s private plane 20-minutes after he boarded. Both thought they got away with it. Both were wrong. Amid a heated Presidential race, federal investigations involving emails and Benghazi and society looking for clarity on the future of the country, the secret tarmac meeting would only complicate things. The secret meeting would have never been revealed if it weren’t for a veteran journalist and a trusted source.
He appeared on Fox News a month after the book’s release and talked about the death threats his family received as a result of him writing the story and book, noting that his three children had code words to use:
“Well, my family received significant death threats shortly after breaking this story. Credit cards hacked. You know, my children, we have code words. We have secret code words that they know what to do.”
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Because numerous people associated with the Clintons including Jeffrey Epstein have been found dead over the years in what local authorities determined were suicides, some Twitter users weighed in with skepticism over what police are saying was the cause of Sign’s death:
During that Fox News interview last year, Sign talked about what his source saw during the day the infamous Clinton-Lynch meeting took place, and also rhetorically asked why more reporters weren’t curious about what happened:
He said that his source who was there outlined that when Clinton arrived at the airport, he was waiting for Lynch.“He then sat and waited in his car with the motorcade, her airstairs come down, most of her staff gets off, he then gets on as the Secret Service and FBI are figuring out ‘How in the world are we supposed to handle this? What are we supposed to do?’” Sign said.“As journalists, you have to ask yourself, why are people not delving into this? Why are we not looking into what exactly happened?”[…]“This story isn’t about right or left, Republican or Democrat, it’s about right and wrong and journalism.”
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As noted earlier, Sign had three sons. He is also survived by his wife Laura.
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