Posted on 10/09/2016 10:24:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Donald Trump says he’ll jail opponent Hillary Clinton if he wins the presidency.
The Republican presidential nominee made the threat — an unprecedented break with U.S. political decorum — in the middle of the second presidential debate, held Sunday in St. Louis. […]
Trump's remarks drew widespread and bipartisan condemnation as un-American.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who served under President Barack Obama, wrote on Twitter: “In the USA we do not threaten to jail political opponents. @realDonaldTrump said he would. He is promising to abuse the power of the office.”
Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary under George W. Bush and a supporter of Trump, wrote: “Winning candidates don’t threaten to put opponents in jail. Presidents don’t threaten prosecution of individuals. Trump is wrong on this.” …
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Holder: In USA we do not threaten to jail political opponents. @realDonaldTrump said he would. He is promising to abuse the power of the office.”
On the other hand if he were to (as he said) ask the AG to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate a case where there are allegations of serious lawbreaking resulting in a threat to national security and a subsequent apparent coverup by high government officials, that would be the opposite of abuse of power.
The line about her being in jail wasn't a threat or a statement of intent, it was a reponse to her saying how pleased she is he isn't in charge of the law in the USA and he replied with a zinger, not a threat. Anyone wringing their hands over it is a fool, a liar, or both.
Wow. These boobs are in need of some history lessons.
Eric Holder doesn’t jail thugs who attack you with baseball bats at the polls, either. They are scum and they know it.
Shows just how effective and on his game DJT was tonight. The “ Trump is mean”, meme us alive and well in liberal wet dreams.
Hillary is special. She’s too big to jail. She should just be allowed to break the law and not go to jail like us regular plebeians. In fact, she should be promoted to the highest position in the country for it.
No, that was when the Bush family conspired with the Clinton family to release the smear video - something that was off limits for centuries before they decided they were too important to lose.
Every newspaper man in the East knew about Jack Kennedy back in the day - they said nothing about Judy Exner, Monroe and the entire army of women he was screwing.
That was considered off limits. The Clintons started this fight, Trump just ended it.
I don’t want to hurt your feelings Julie old girl but the majority of AMERICANS loved it!
Is this not the comment that got the most positive response from the audience who the moderator had to tell them to calm down?
I sure didn’t condemn Trumps suggestion that Clinton will be prosecuted and jailed by a Trump administration. Sounds good to me.
“Donald Trump says he’ll jail opponent Hillary Clinton if he wins the presidency.”
Outright lie.
Excellent point and retort!
I sort of remember it being Clinton jibbing Trump about what would have happened had he been president and his snap back ‘you’d be in jail.’
But hey, history is dictated by the media, so it’ll be whatever they say come the nightly news.
This is exactly why the political class is so hated. They won’t go after her because she is one of them.
Holder is afraid hillary would roll over on him.
Nice try, enemedia, but the people get it. Trump meant that with himself as President, justice would be dealt even handedly, unlike now. Based on the facts, this would inevitably lead to jail time for the Clinton`s. Trump speaks like normal folk, and normal folk understand what he meant.
Tell that to Snowden!
Assange would agree with you though, you don't threaten to jail them, you threaten to murder them!
Me too. Probably the best thing he’s said in the past week.
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