Even prominent conservatives in the legal field have said that for Trump to act to jail Clinton would be inadvisable, and it would politicize the Justice Department in an alarming way. Former attorney general Michael Mukasey, one of Clinton’s most vocal critics on the email issue, told The Washington Post last month, “It would be like a banana republic.” Those remarks came after Trump broached the idea of a special prosecutor at a debate…
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway later said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Trump’s remark about jailing Clinton was a “quip.” She added, “As for the special prosecutor, I think that’s Donald Trump channeling the frustration he hears from thousands of voters out on the stump every day.”
During his victory speech, Trump said, “It is time for us to come together as one united people” and said that Clinton had “worked very long and very hard over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country.” He made no mention of Clinton’s emails.
President Obama could short-circuit the affair entirely, pardoning Clinton before he leaves office in January.
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