5 months ago
22
NEW DELHI: Donald Trump on Sunday said that he did not ask for his 2016
Presidential election rival
Hillary Clinton to be jailed. He further said that it was the crowd that chanted "
lock her up
" during his election rallies and he didn't join in.
In an interview to Fox News, Trump said, "I didn't say 'lock her up,' but the people said lock her up, lock her up," Trump said.
This came in response to the interviewer asking Trump- "You famously said, regarding Hillary Clinton, 'Lock her up.' You declined to do that as president."
"I beat her," Trump said.
"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.
"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 said.
When factchecked by the US media, the claim was found to be false. Further, some social media users shared supercuts of Trump endorsing the cry or openly advocating for Clinton's imprisonment, AFP reported.
Last week, Trump was found guilty on 34 charges of fabricating financial documents to hide payments of hush money to an adult film star in the run-up to the 2016 election.
