Fact check: Trump falsely claims he didn’t call to lock up Hillary Clinton
By: Daniel Dale, CNN
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed in a new interview that he didn’t make a “lock her up” call for the imprisonment of his Democratic opponent of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton.
Trump, who faces the possibility of a prison sentence after he was convicted last week on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, was asked in an interview aired Sunday on Fox News about how he had “famously said… ‘lock her up’” in relation to Clinton but did not jail her when he was president.
During his answer, Trump said he had decided that imprisoning Clinton “would have been a terrible thing.” Then he added: “I didn’t say ‘lock her up,’ but the people would all say ‘lock her up, lock her up.’”
Facts First : Trump’s claim that “I didn’t say ‘lock her up’” is false. He called for Clinton’s imprisonment on multiple occasions, including by using the phrase “lock her up.”
Trump often used such rhetoric while criticizing Clinton’s email practices as secretary of state during the Obama administration, which prompted a federal investigation. She was never charged with a crime.
During campaign rallies in 2016, Trump sometimes paused his remarks as his supporters engaged in chants of “lock her up,” giving the chants time to continue. On other occasions, he explicitly repeated those words himself.
“For what she’s done, they should lock her up,” Trump said after the crowd chanted “lock her up” at an October 2016 rally in North Carolina.
“‘Lock her up’ is right,” he said at an October 2016 rally in Pennsylvania.
Trump also explicitly called for Clinton’s imprisonment using different phrasing.
“Hillary Clinton has to go to jail, OK? She has to go to jail,” he said in a June 2016 speech in California. “She has to go to jail,” he repeated in an October 2016 speech in Florida. And at a presidential debate in October 2016, after Clinton said , “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Trump responded, “Because you’d be in jail.”
Trump softened his rhetoric shortly after he defeated Clinton in the election, saying he didn’t want to hurt her and didn’t feel strongly about prosecuting her. In his 2020 campaign for reelection, though, he again made calls to “lock her up.”
“You should lock her up, I’ll tell you,” he said at a January 2020 rally in Ohio. At an October 2020 rally in Georgia, after the crowd chanted “lock them up” in relation to the Biden family, Trump said , “You should lock them up. Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary.”
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In another sign of his increasingly severe dementia Trump claims he never said "Lock her up" about Hillary Clinton.
As everyone alive knows, he most definitely did. Dozens of times.
it's like recorded audio and video doesn't exist in their world...
More fundamentally, logic and reason don't exist in their world.
those are both contrary to maga ideology...
And none of his supporters care how full of shit he is. Again.
It's a recurring thing. As we have discovered, many of them are just as full of shit as he is.
you can't get on youtube without seeing a video of maga morons being ridiculed for their stupidity...
there's so much, it could almost be a separate streaming service...
Trumps excuse is that it was the crowd that chanted "lock her up", not him.
Yes, that is what he wants everyone to believe.
It's another indication of his desperation.
... his declining cognitive ability.
Oh, I see all the left-wing fact checks on google.
Trump did back up the calls to "lock her up,"
but as President he did not choose to prosecute his opponent!
did trump say it or not, vic? or is this just another trump lie that gullible maga morons will let slide?
>poof<
”vic?”
…no worries, no comment needed, no more excuses…some will choose to ignore the truth in living a sad life in lonely desperation.
I could almost hear the tires squealing when the hasty exit was made...
Once all pretence of truth telling was abandoned what was left? The MAGA sandcastles of lies are being swept away, again...
Lately they all sound like apocalyptic end timers on meth!
"THE END IS NIGH!"
I bet they don't even believe their own wild ass predictions.
“Once all pretence of truth telling was abandoned what was left?”
Absolutely nothing but the vainglorious attempt to prop up a characterless and demonstrably existential threat to our country.
Unimaginable but sadly possible.
Normally people act like that get locked in a "special ward". If you read some of the hyperbolic rightwing rants posted since Trump's convictions (plural, 34 of them) it sounds KRAZY!
That plus the overwhelming smell of all that "hair on fire"...
Did you need internet fact checks to find out the truth here?
I'm pretty sure Trump initiated the calls to lock her up.
And neither did President Biden!
and now, trump is doubling down on it...
Why wouldn't he? Trump doubling down on his lies seems to work just fine for him. Plenty of his followers believe him when he does.
they don't even try to spin it anymore and immediately deflect to whataboutisms...
They're so dizzy from the spinning they needed to sit down and rest.
Trump said, on numerous occasions , that Hillary Clinton should be locked up. Now he denies ever having said it, even though it is on video.
Trumpsters who defend this are pitiful.
The story is about what he said, not what he ended up doing. You’re changing the subject. But then, you’d have to to keep supporting him.
any admission of an error is an unforgivable sign of weakness to narcissists ...
Former 'president' trump CONVICTED FELON WHO BELONGS IN PRISONN
Trump has a very bad habit of lying to all Americans by saying that we did not see and did not hear what we definitely all saw and all heard...
Just like on 1/6 which he incited and then watched unfold for hours and hours and did nothing to stop it because he incited it in the first place and 'they're doing this for me'
good comparison
he didn’t make a “lock her up” call for the imprisonment of his Democratic opponent of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton.
Technically this is true. He made HUNDREDS of calls for this.
Must have been.
he hasn't changed much of his routine in 8 years...
Time mark 7:45
I guess his memory is failing him.
as I have personally witnessed in my own family, dementia doesn't happen overnight...
I've heard that happens when the diaper is full.
too bad the hole all of his shit exits is under his nose...
How dare you persecute him by reporting his actual words?
I'm surprised trumpsters haven't been tossing the AI card more often claiming the shit their hero says is fake...
Well, now that you brought it up, they probably will.
Don't go doing their job for them. They put forth the ridiculous excuses, not us.
I'm sure they'll figure it out, in about 50+ years...
They are picking on me says the Donald, how dare they use my actual words, it's the deep state again.
He said it over and over, but it's fake news!
Whatever happened to alternate facts? Too stupid to last?
They fucked off to Bowling Green after the massacre there and were never heard from again under that name.
LOL
no rwnj would ever get that reference...
Nor the lwnj's.