Trump will NOT pursue Clinton investigation

The Horn News ^ | November 22, 2016

[yoe]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s controversial homebrew email server was the subject of months of debate between Clinton supporters and voters backing President-elect Donald Trump leading up to the election.

Trump supporters’ cries to “Lock her up” reverberated through rallies across the country. And during the second presidential debate, Trump told Clinton, “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation.”

[nathanbedford]

If Clinton is pardoned at least Trump will be acting within the explicit scope of his constitutional powers. If she is pardoned without any acknowledgment on her part of wrongdoing, it would be a grievous error.

But simply to renege on his campaign pledge to follow through on the investigation and potential prosecution of Hillary Clinton because it's more convenient for him politically or even merely because he is moved by compassion, is repugnant to his duty as the chief law enforcement officer of the nation. Moreover, it sends the very worst signal that rank corruption will be tolerated, that the swamp will not be drained, that justice is not blind, that the rule of law applies only to the unwashed.

The country is teetering on the verge of cynicism and contempt for the rule of law. We have Black Lives Matter rioting at will, policeman assassinated because they represent the law, a president with a pen and a phone who flaunts the law and abdicates his responsibility to enforce it.

In today's climate both a pardon and an abdication of the duty to prosecute would stand as a grave disservice to the nation at a time when we are particularly vulnerable.

[editor-surveyor]

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Thanks for your effluvious gullibility.
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[Yashcheritsiy]

And that’s the point.

CONGRESS will pursue it.

Also, Trump’s AG and the FBI, acting *without specific direction from him* probably will as well.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Ha ha, you PONTIFICATED!!!

[roostercogburn]

Please elaborate? Are you saying he will let her off the hook? Will he instruct Sessions to drop all investigations?

[nathanbedford]

Bugger off!

[VanDeKoik]

Lol!

I think the gullible ones are the little crew of old Cruzbots that have made utter idiots of themselves today.

[VanDeKoik]

What?

You dont like this, what did you call it a few weeks ago, oh yeah this “ship of fools”?

[nathanbedford]

Rubbish!

The reply to which you attached your comment was not put on the thread except as you see it.

On a companion thread on the same subject I explicitly predicated my reaction on the truth of the initial report that Trump would not pursue Clinton.

Once again on that thread, I reiterated that my comments were conditioned on the report being true.

Otherwise, bugger off!

[donna]

Congress should do it.

[liberalh8ter]

According to Maggie Haberman's Twitter

Trump says "no" when asked if he is taking investigations off the table for Clintons but adds he doesn't want to "hurt the Clintons."

That's not the same as saying he won't go after them.

[nathanbedford]

Did you predict that Trump would lose the popular vote?

My remark was directed toward the dismissal of polls that predicted a win for Hillary on the popular vote. I missed on the electoral college but I suspect you missed on the popular vote.

[VanDeKoik]

I predicted Trump would win the whole thing.

And never waivered for a year straight.

[The Fop]

Instead, he’ll be sending some coal miners from West Virginia to dig up the tunnels underneath Comet Pizza.

[Radix]

On the brighter side of things. The discussion is currently regarding weather or not Hillary will be further investigated and prosecuted. In a different reality, Hillary is the President Elect and none of these possibilities would even be considered.

[DaveA37]

Not pursuing Clinton’s illegal activities really upsets not only me but millions more. I am troubled with Trump making such an announcement as he pretty much suggested he would pursue criminal charges against her. It is possible that I may have wished that he intended to go after her but there also seems to be millions more with the same understanding. His promise to dumping odumbo care has been modified, another example? Did he pull the wool over our eyes? There seems to be some different stories coming out of Trump now that he has been elected. I thought he said he was NOT a politician.

[Yashcheritsiy]

You pontificated AGAIN!!!

[nathanbedford]

Well, then you were wrong on the popular vote.

I am at a loss to know what the significance of this argument is. Why should someone who loses an election bet be less worthy than someone who wins an election bet? Is someone who rooted for the Chicago Cubs more worthy than someone who rooted for the Cleveland Indians?

[nathanbedford]

In your case more like casting pearls before swine.

[Noob1999]

Who’s Trumps Sec Treasury?

Let the IRS land on Bubba, the Beast, and Fugly, hit them with tax on all that the three of them skimmed, all the non charity spending, like Blumenthal, and gift taxes on Fuglys $10,000,000 apartment/ rehab facility, plus $ millions of penalty and interest.

Then lock them up with Madoff so they can all recall the good old days!