Donald Trump said on Sunday that he never asked for the incarceration of his rival in the 2016 Presidential election, Hillary Clinton. He went further to say that lock her up chants during his campaigns were not responded by him.
“I didn’t say ‘lock her up,’ but the people said lock her up, lock her up,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News.
This was after being asked by the interviewer: “You famously said, regarding Hillary Clinton, ‘Lock her up.’ You declined to do that as president.”
“Beat her,” Trump replied.
“It’s easier when you win. And they always said ‘lock her up,’ and I felt — and I could have done it, but I felt it would have been a terrible thing. And then this happened to me. And so I may feel differently about it,” he added.
“And then we won. And I say — and I said pretty openly, I said, all right, come on, just relax, let’s go, we’ve got to make our country great,” the former US president noted.
According to AFP, the claim was factchecked by US media and found to be false. Additionally some social media users shared supercuts of Trump endorsing the cry or openly advocating for Clinton’s imprisonment.
Last week Donald Trump was convicted on 34 charges of tampering with financial documents that included covering payments made for hush money given to an adult film star in the months leading towards 2016 elections.
