r/politics • u/rollingstone Rolling Stone • Jun 02 '24

Trump Denies Ever Saying ‘Lock Her Up.’ He Did… Several Times Soft Paywall

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-denies-saying-lock-her-up-clinton-1235031145/
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u/CaptainNoBoat Jun 02 '24

Other quotes from Trump about Hillary:

“We could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial,” Trump said at the rally. “It would grind government to a halt.”

“If she were to win, it would create an unprecedented Constitutional crisis that would cripple the operations of our government,” he said. “She is likely to be under investigation for many years, and also it will probably end up – in my opinion – in a criminal trial. I mean, you take a look. Who knows? But it certainly looks that way.”

“She has no right to be running, you know that,”

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u/Roook36 Jun 02 '24

And he dropped it all once he won.

Before election: "During their second debate, Mr. Trump turned to Mrs. Clinton and vowed, “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there’s never been so many lies, so much deception.”

After election: "“I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t,” Mr. Trump said during the interview. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways, and I am not looking to hurt them at all. The campaign was vicious.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-investigation.html

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u/TBAnnon777 Jun 02 '24

He didnt so much as drop it, he literally had a white house inquiry done to generate a report on her alleged criminal actions, only to stop and dismantle the team when they were finalizing the report because the report showed she wasnt guilty of any crimes or wrongdoings outside of what every other administration had done with their emails, and what Trump and his team were doing were ramped up to the 10th degree worse than her actions with their unapproved mobile phones, forced security clearances and repeatedly breaching security protocols with both communications and improper storage of such data.

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u/TXRhody Texas 29d ago

The whole idea of locking Clinton up while Jared and Ivanka were using gmail accounts was preposterous.

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u/flickh Canada 29d ago

Fake news!

Remember when that was all you had to say? Now a poor Republican talking head has to actually make up a whole new reality involving space lasers and Jesus in order to dismiss a crime they committed.