If
elected, will jail Hillary over e-mail case: Donald Trump
Republican nominee Donald Trump on Sunday vowed to launch a
special investigation against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton over her use of
a private e-mail server as Secretary of State, if elected as the US President
and ensure she is jailed.
"We
are going to get a special prosecutor and we are going to look into it, because
you know what? People... their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of
what you have done.
And
it's a disgrace. And honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourself," Trump
said as held a feisty exchange of words with Democratic rival during their
second presidential debate here.
Clinton,
68, accused Trump of lying. "Because everything he just said is absolutely
false, but I'm not surprised," she said. "Oh, really?" Trump
remarked.
"It
is just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not
in charge of the law in our country," Clinton said. "Because you'd be
in jail," Trump said in another interruption.
"If
you did that in the private sector, you'd be put in jail, let alone after
getting a subpoena from the United States Congress," Trump said.
He
demanded that Clinton apologise for deleting 33,000 e-mails. "I think the
one that you should really be apologising for and the thing that you should be
apologising for are the 33,000 e-mails that you deleted and acid washed and
then the two boxes of e-mails and other things last week that were taken from
an office and are now missing," he said.
"I
did not think I would say this, but I am going to say it. And I hate to say it
but if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special
prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many
lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it and we are going
to have a special prosecutor," Trump said.
People
in this country get furious, the 70-year-old real estate tycoon said, adding,
"In my opinion, the people that have been long-term workers at the FBI are
furious. There has never been anything like this, where e-mails... and you get
a subpoena and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 e-mails, and then
you acid wash them or bleach them, as you would say, very expensive
process."
Clinton
has been charged with using a personal e-mail, endangering national security,
during her tenure as US President Barack Obama's chief diplomat from 2009-2013.
During
the 90-minute debate, she reasserted that she made a mistake on the e-mail
issue.
"I've
said before, but I'll repeat it, because I want everyone to hear it that was a
mistake and I take responsibility for using a personal e-mail account.
"Obviously,
if I were to do it over again, I would not.
I'm
not making any excuses. It was a mistake. And I am very sorry about that,"
she said.
(THE STATESMAN)
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