After Sunday evening’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton’s campaign fired back against Donald Trump’s comment that as president he would “instruct” his attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to go after Hillary Clinton.
“That is the comment of a dictator that you expect to hear in a banana republic — the idea of jailing your political opponents,” Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon told Yahoo News after the debate.
During the bout, Trump invoked Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state and said he was not satisfied with the FBI’s recommendation not to prosecute the case. “I’ll tell you what, I didn’t think I’d say this, and I’m going to say it and hate to say it,” Trump said. “If I win, I’m going to instruct the attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there’s never been so many lies, so much deception.”
Clinton said that Trump’s allegations about her emails were false, adding, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law of our country.”
Trump then retorted: “Because you’d be in jail,” as some in the audience cheered and laughed.
After the debate, Trump’s campaign doubled down on the assertion:
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