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Trump aide Kellyanne Conway: No plan to pursue charges against Clinton
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President-elect Donald Trump's administration will not pursue further
investigations of Hillary Clinton related to her private email server or
the Clinton Foundation, Trump's former campaign manager Kellyanne
Conway said Tuesday, a significant ...
Trump aide Kellyanne Conway: No plan to pursue charges against Clinton
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- The Trump administration will not further investigate Hillary Clinton related to her email use
- Kellyanne Conway said that most Americans still don't trust Clinton
(CNN)President-elect
Donald Trump's administration will not pursue further investigations of
Hillary Clinton related to her private email server or the Clinton
Foundation, Trump's former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said
Tuesday, a significant break from a major campaign promise.
"I
think when the President-elect, who's also the head of your party,
tells you before he's even inaugurated that he doesn't wish to pursue
these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone, and content" to
fellow Republicans, Conway said in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning
Joe."
At
the second presidential debate in early October, Trump threatened
Clinton, saying that "if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney
general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation."
Conway
said Clinton "still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans
don't find her to be honest or trustworthy," but added that "if Donald
Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that's a good thing to do."
"Look,
I think he's thinking of many different things as he prepares to become
the President of the United States, and things that sound like the
campaign are not among them," she added.
Despite
Trump breaking a campaign promise to some of the most fervent
anti-Clinton supporters, Democrats also took issue with the decision as a
sign of the President-elect's executive overreach.
"That's
not how this works. In our democracy, the President doesn't decide who
gets prosecuted and who doesn't," Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut wrote on Twitter.
During
Trump's ferocious election fight with Clinton, chants of "lock her up"
-- referring to Clinton -- became a refrain of the Republican's
campaign, as he hammered the Democratic presidential nominee over her
decision to use a private email server as secretary of state, and lobbed
accusations of corruption and "pay to play" politics at the Clinton
Foundation. Trump's choice for National Security Adviser Michael Flynn also led a high profile chant at the Republican National Convention of "lock her up."
Trump repeatedly brought up jailing Clinton on his own, often at raucous campaign rallies over the summer and into the fall.
"Remember
I said I was a counter-puncher? I am," Trump said at a San Jose rally
in June, referencing an anti-Trump speech Clinton gave. "After what she
said about me today, her phony speech, that was a phony speech. It was a
Donald trump hit job, I will say this: Hillary Clinton has to go to
jail, ok? (Cheers) She has to go to jail, phony hit job. She's guilty as
hell."
"She gets a subpoena, she deleted the emails, she has to go to jail," Trump said at a Lakeland, Florida, rally in October.
But
in interviews with the Wall Street Journal and CBS' "60 Minutes" after
the election, Trump refused to say if he would fulfill that commitment
to appoint a special prosecutor.
"I'm
going to think about it," he told "60 Minutes." "I feel I want to focus
on jobs. I want to focus on healthcare, I want to focus on the border
and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill. And I want to
focus on -- all of these other things that we've been talking about."
He told the program she "did some bad things" but added the Clintons are
"good people."
And Trump told the Wall Street Journal that "it's not something I've given a lot of thought, because I want to solve health care, jobs, border control, tax reform."
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