'I Didn't Say Lock Her Up': Trump Distances Himself From Call to Jail Clinton

[Tom of Temecula]

Former President Donald Trump denied ever calling to jail his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton in an interview with Fox News following his own conviction on 34 felony charges in New York.

In an interview with Fox & Friends Weekend, co-host Will Cain asked Trump about the infamous call to prosecute Clinton over her email server that has become a hallmark of his campaign rallies where crowds chant “lock her up.” “You famously said, regarding Hillary Clinton, lock her up. You declined to do that as president,” Cain said.

“I beat her,” Trump replied. “It’s easier when you win. And they always said lock her up, and I felt — and I could have done it, but I felt it would have been a terrible thing. And then this happened to me.”

Trump then denied ever calling to jail Clinton. “Hillary Clinton — I didn’t say lock her up, but the people said lock her up, lock her up. Okay,” Trump said. “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… And it would have been — think of it, you lock up the wife of a president of the United States —”

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/i-didnt-say-lock-her-up-trump-distances-himself-from-call-to-jail-clinton/

[Ocelot II]

5. You might want to rephrase that.

[FakeNoose]

2. If memory serves, it was Mike Flynn (the disgraced former general) who started that chant

I'm sure Chump told him to do it. Or maybe it came straight from Pootie? I don't know.
Either way, Chump was in full agreement.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Trump's denials are gaslighting

Narcissistic gaslighting. MAGA believes him and surrender their minds and wallets. From that point on MAGA is controlled by the emotional poison Trump spews.

[walkingman]

4. Everytime he opens his mouth it is a lie.

[kacekwl]

9. This

we must remember and remind the press. Should be easy because they have the video/audio at their finger tips.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Sociopath gaslighting.

[sop]

7. Trump is such a consummate bullshit artist.

His 2024 campaign slogan should be "Who you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?" (apologies to Groucho Marx).

[magicarpet]

8. trDUMP is a fabricator and a fucking liar par excellence.

Those are the only skill sets he brings to the table.

Why I would never ever stoop so low as to rant - "Lock Her Up" - meaning Hillary Rodham Clinton. I am a much better man than that - and would never defile the Office of the United States Presidency to that extent.

Fuck you trDUMP.

[Warpy]

10. Oh, please, he's all about jailing innocent people

because they're poor, because they're POC, because they are the toddlers of asylum seekers, because they're the Central Park 5, because they're Democrats.

I think it's time for the rest of us to jail him. It's cheaper than having him jail anyone who isn't rich, white, male and Republican.

[Attilatheblond]

12. That is as clear & concise as it gets!

[Tom of Temecula]

11. This one

Link to tweet

[Blue Owl]

13. Just one problem, Diarrhea Donny....

Hillary didn’t break the law. You did.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Poetic Justice.

Link to tweet

[intheflow]

15. Waiting for the supercut of him

saying this at rallies. You know someone’s working on it right now. It’d be great if it came from The Lincoln Project.