With a familiar chant, President Donald Trump's backers regularly called for Hillary Clinton to be thrown in prison during the 2016 campaign. As Democrats in Congress press for continued investigation of Trump while he remains in office, the party's presidential candidates are weighing how to
1 / 4Election 2020 IowaDemocratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame Celebration, Sunday, June 9, 2019, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. WASHINGTON — With a familiar chant, President Donald Trump's backers regularly called for Hillary Clinton to be thrown in prison during the 2016 campaign. Now top Democrats are grappling with fraught questions about whether to lock HIM up.
Vowing to seek charges against Trump after he leaves office brings risk for Democratic White House hopefuls, given their own party's repeated excoriations of the Republican president for politicizing the Justice Department, as when he threatened repeatedly in the 2016 campaign to prosecute Clinton once he became president.
"Oh, give me a break. She's running for president. She's doing horribly. She's way down in the polls," he told George Stephanopoulos, adding:"Who wouldn't? Probably if I were running, in her position, I'd make the statement." Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, cited President Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal but said he wouldn't be interested in pardoning Trump.
Nearly half of the more than 20 Democratic primary candidates are calling for the start of an impeachment inquiry. Few contenders, though, are making that stance a centerpiece of their campaigns.
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