You have uttered the magic word, IF.
Scoundrel though Slick Willie is, I’ll bet he didn’t day that.
Didn’t say that.
Hmmmm, I think maybe you're right. Seems odd that only the Pak paper wrote it.
I was thinking the same thing. If any other news source, say, a reputable Western source that actually quotes him saying this, I might start to believe he said something similar to it, but I still won't believe he said anything about anybody actually being convicted of a crime. In the first place, even he's not that stupid. In the second place, the article doesn't say under what European law he said the publishers should be tried, let alone convicted. Convicted of what? He may have said everything else that the article paraphrased him as saying, that sounds just like him sucking up to his audience as per his usual self, but not the part about convicting anybody.