Donald Trump falsely claimed in a new interview that he didn’t make a “lock her up” call for the imprisonment of his Democratic opponent of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton, CNN reports.
Trump said he had decided that imprisoning Clinton “would have been a terrible thing.”
Then he added: “I didn’t say ‘lock her up,’ but the people would all say ‘lock her up, lock her up.’”
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