Posted on 11/22/2016 12:18:04 PM PST by monkapotamus
UPDATE, 2:00pm ET: In a meeting with New York Times reporters, President-elect Donald Trump said he would not take the investigations of the Clintons off the table.
Two reporters tweeted from inside the meeting, as Trump also expressed the view that Clinton "suffered greatly" and that it would be "very, very divisive for the country" to prosecute the Clintons.
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...
Trump is classic. He’s playing all of these so-called media people. He’s using them to float his own balloons to smoke out his opposition and set the playing field.
Well, Donald, Bonnie and Clyde Clinton never do care who they hurt, so why should you care about their fate? Investigate them and let the chips fall where they may.
An investigation that won’t hurt the Clintons. I guess that clears it up.
After midnight cash pilots and secret Learjet meetings I submit to you that we, the United States, already crossed over into third world status.
that was their decision not ours.
and here we are now, so tough luck to them
Why is he even being asked this? I am sure this isn’t on his top five to do list and even if it were, why tip his hand so Obama could pardon her before the fact. This man is taking it from all sides. I’m not going to be one of the me.
“Investigations” aren’t necessarily the same as “prosecutions.”
In a banana republic, the prosecutorial decision comes first, and the investigation later.
We should do the investigation first.
If the investigation unearths facts that are sufficiently damning, a report naming the Clintons as unindicted conspirators might do almost as much to clear the air and put them out of business as an actual prosecution.
Trump’s going to have these MSM types insanely drooling before it’s over.
Midnight cash pallets.
I want to hear it from Trump himself, not Laura Ingraham or Kellyanne
Go Ben!!
Is there to be rule of law for everybody in this country or is there not? Are we to have a class of nobility to whom the law doesn’t apply or are all citizens to be equal under the law?
Investigate fully the Clinton rackets and prosecute fully any offenses uncovered or politics in the US will forever be the domain of chancers, grifters, thieves, and worse.
Under our Constitution, the Chief Executive doesn't have the power to decide whether a citizen is prosecuted. (Or course we know Obama interfered in prosecutions, and he did a lot other things that were un-Constitutional.)
Fine for PE Trump to say he will not ask for appointment of a special prosecutor. But if the DOJ decides to prosecute, and Trump doesn't like it, seems to me his only Constitutional recourse is to issue a pardon. (Which, for Hillary, he won't do.)
Trump is finished I tell you! Finished!
Been hearing that since June of 2015.
This should be a Presidential nightmare. Trump obviously sent his sycophants out to pitch his message of peace and now he wants to leave wiggle room. People won’t want to work for someone who hangs them out to dry.
It’s been obvious for quite some time that Trump has a warm side and a cold side. I said on another thread that I don’t think he wants to drag the country into even greater division and discord by going after Hillary.
He may be learning an early lesson this week, that he must stay resolute in his promises to the voters, even when he himself has a momentary attack of the softies.
sycophants? Really dude?
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