Donald Trump insisted on Sunday that he never called for his 2016 Democratic opponent and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be locked up.
Trump’s attempt to rewrite history comes as he was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records to silence an adult film star during there 2016 campaign. Sentencing is set for July 11.
On Sunday, he told ‘Fox & Friends‘ that he never said Clinton should be locked up over her email server.
“You famously said regarding Hillary Clinton, ‘Lock her up.’ You declined to do that as president,” host Will Cain said.
“I beat her,” Trump responded. “It’s easier when you win. They always said, ‘Lock her up.’ And I could have done it, but I felt it would have been a terrible thing. And then this happened to me, so I may feel differently about it. I can’t tell you, I’m not sure I can answer the question.”
He continued, “Hillary Clinton — I didn’t say, ‘Lock her up,’ but the people would all say, ‘Lock her up, lock her up.’ OK. Then we won, and I said pretty openly, I’d say, ‘Alright, come on, just relax. Let’s go. We gotta make our country great.’”
Despite Trump’s claims he has repeatedly agreed with and called for Clinton to be locked up during and after the 2016 campaign.
He agreed with the crowd at a rally in Greensboro, NC in 2016 when they cheated ‘lock her up’. He told the crowd: “For what she’s done, they should lock her up.”
At a Pennsylvania rally in 2016 he told the crowd “lock her up is right” and told Colorado rally “I’m starting to agree with you” during the ‘lock her up’ chant.
Even after he was elected, Trump still agreed with the calls to lock up Clinton and blamed his then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not prosecuting her at a 2017 in Alabama.
