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| Subject: Trump’s Special-Prosecutor Promise Is Not a Criminalization of Politics Mon Oct 10, 2016 5:07 pm | |
| The Obama Justice Department’s ‘investigation’ of Hillary Clinton was the real banana-republic event.
One of the sillier post-debate comments comes from Nicholas Burns of Harvard’s Kennedy School, who tweeted: “Threatening to jail a political opponent is anti-democratic and anti-American.”
Donald Trump did memorably say that Hillary Clinton “would be in jail” if he were president; but what he actually vowed to do was appoint a “special prosecutor” to look into Mrs. Clinton’s “situation” — by which he was obviously referring to the e-mail scandal.
This is manifestly not a case of banana-republic criminalization of politics. Trump was not threatening to go after Clinton because she has the temerity to oppose him politically. He was committing to have a special prosecutor investigate Clinton for mishandling classified information, destroying government files, and obstruction of justice — criminal misconduct that has nothing to do with being a political adversary of Trump’s, and for which others who commit similar felonies go to jail.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440917/donald-trump-special-prosecutor-hillary-clinton-debate |
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