In reality, he made calling for her imprisonment a cornerstone of his 2016 campaign.
Speaking to Fox & Friends Weekend, Trump falsely declared, “I didn’t say ‘lock her up,’ but the people said, ‘lock her up, lock her up.’ Then, we won. And I say—and I said pretty openly—I said, ‘all right, come on, just relax, let’s go, we’ve got to make our country great.
” Telling Clinton during an October 2016 presidential debate: “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation,” and saying if he were in charge of the law she’d “be in jail.” Incidentally, the calls for imprisoning Clinton didn’t stop when she was no longer Trump’s opponent. In September 2020, when he was running against Joe Biden, he responded “I agree” to chants calling for locking up the former Democratic nominee.
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