Top Trump Supporters Suggest He Won’t Really Lock Up Hillary Clinton
Top supporters of President-elect Donald Trump threw cold water on his campaign promise to put Hillary Clinton in jail Thursday, saying it was time to unite the country and move forward.
“Politics are over now, people have spoken, time to move on,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said on NBC’s “Today” show Thursday morning, emphasizing that he and Trump have not spoken about the topic.
He noted that Trump and his Democratic opponent had “an enormously gracious conversation with each other Tuesday night.”
“The people get to speak through their vote, and they voted for Donald Trump to be president of the United States,” added Christie, who is leading Trump’s White House transition efforts.
“It is now his job ― and I am confident he will ― to bring the country together.”
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) told CNN Thursday that the question of whether to go after Clinton was “a tough one that should be given a lot of thought and shouldn’t be an off-the-cuff answer.”
“I think that somebody should review that very carefully, as to how bad is that evidence,” said Giuliani, who is reportedly under consideration to be Trump’s attorney general.
“If it isn’t as bad as some of the exaggerators think it is, then maybe the best thing to do is forget about it and move on.
If it is really bad, then somebody’s got to look at it who is independent.”