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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 112 points 5 months ago

He already told Hillary to her face he was going to prosecute her and send her to prison. Then when he was in office he backed down immediately.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 97 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Let's not gloss over something important, Trump did try to get Hillary locked up. He had his justice department investigate her and the Clinton foundation both. They couldn't find evidence of crimes, so Hillary remains free.

Where Trump backed down was not going extra-judicial. But let's not let him off the hook, he tried, he's a despot.

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

He also hadn’t replaced the entire Justice department with MAGA lackeys like he did the Supreme Court and federal court system.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

And his cronies are still harping on it. There are people in positions of power, with money and influence, who are still trying to do everything to put Fuckface 45's "enemies" away.

The coup marches on.

[-] elgordino@fedia.io 44 points 5 months ago

Heres a video of him saying “that plays great before the election. Now we don’t care”

Sorry for the Facebook link!

https://www.facebook.com/NowThisEntertainment/videos/donald-trump-just-admitted-he-lied-about-his-campaign-heres-trevor-noahs-take-on/1261410687253824/

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Yes, but he’s vindictive, and Hillary was more of an obstacle than a threat.

Trump appointed 226 judges in just his first term. The only President in history to have appointed more in one term was Carter with 262. The most appointed in two terms was Reagan with 383. Trump is well over half way there.

With increased likelihood of getting one of his appointed judges, and conservative control of SCOTUS, this is a viable threat.

”I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of America, Joe Biden, and go after the Biden crime family,” Trump said in June at his Bedminster, New Jersey, residence, just hours after being arraigned at a federal courthouse in Miami on charges related to his handling of classified documents after he left the White House.

But Trump credited himself for not going after Clinton, compared to what is now being done to him.

“Some people said I should have done it, but, you know, could have, would have been very easy to do it, but I thought it would be a terrible precedent for our country,” Trump said. “And now, whoever it may be, you’re going to have to view it very much differently. This is a bad, bad road that they’re leading us down to as a country."

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

He won’t do it cause if he wins, Biden won’t be a threat. It would be a waste of time and energy for something nobody would actually care about at that point.

[-] Thecornershop@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah but you're forgetting that Biden beat him. That fact alone changes the equation massively I think. Trump will delight in pushing Biden into the mud face down.

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