Clinton Says Trump Would Have 'Locked Her Up' if She'd Done Anything Wrong

[Judi Lynn]

BY ADRIAN CARRASQUILLO ON 7/3/20 AT 7:25 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton says President Donald Trump would have tried to "lock her up" if there was legitimately any law she had broken.

"Look, if I had ever done anything wrong, he would have gone after me," Clinton told The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast while promoting her new Hulu documentary. "You know, I've never done anything wrong. I'm, you know, as some people like to say, the most investigated, exonerated person in recent history."

Clinton went on to say that, deep down, Trump fears his 2016 win is illegitimate because Russia helped him and he would have gone after her if he thought it would impose a personal cost on her.

"He would have, because he's a vindictive score-settler and he doesn't want the legitimacy of his election ever to be questioned, although history will continue to question it," she continued. "So, thankfully, you know, I never did anything that gave him any cause, despite his best efforts."

More:
https://www.newsweek.com/clinton-says-trump-would-have-locked-her-if-shed-done-anything-wrong-1515382?piano_t=1

[soothsayer]

1. Uh oh, will he try to lock her up now?

[lapucelle]

3. He already tried and failed.

...Based on no new evidence but rather on an undisguised personal vendetta, Trump opened up another investigation. The Post reported:

John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was tapped in November 2017 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into concerns raised by President Trump and his allies in Congress that the FBI had not fully pursued cases of possible corruption at the Clinton Foundation and during Clinton’s time as secretary of state, when the U.S. government decided not to block the sale of a company called Uranium One.

As a part of his review, Huber examined documents and conferred with federal law enforcement officials in Little Rock who were handling a meandering probe into the Clinton Foundation, people familiar with the matter said. Current and former officials said that Huber has largely finished and found nothing worth pursuing — though the assignment has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to lawmakers, these people said.

The coverage of her exoneration has been minimal. The number of stories such as Clinton cleared in witch-hunt probe or Right-wing accusations debunked has been underwhelming. The legitimate media does not seem interested in asking Trump or other Republicans to acknowledge that their accusations were baseless. You would think legitimate media outlets at the very least would self-reflect on their coverage that often treated long-ago disproved accusations as still unsettled.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/12/hillary-clinton-most-exonerated-politician-ever/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/2020/01/09/ca83932e-32f9-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html

[Thomas Hurt]

2. The pr**k would lock up a lot of people

if he thought he could get away with it.

[Skittles]

4. Trump doesn't FEAR he is illegitimate, he KNOWS he is illegitimate

Trump also knows he needs Putie more than ever now.