Trump vows he’ll work to ‘jail’ Clinton if elected president
Tense debate sees Republican nominee lash out at his rival’s husband, dismiss his own lewd comments on women as ‘locker room talk’
Donald Trump on Sunday threatened, if elected president, to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her email use as secretary of state, warning her she would “be in jail” under his watch.
“If I win, I’m going to instruct the attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there’s never been so many lies, so much deception,” the Republican nominee told his Democratic rival during their tense second presidential debate at Washington University in St Louis.
Clinton responded, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law of our country,” prompting the Republican to fire back: “Because you’d be in jail.”
Trump repeatedly interrupted Clinton and talked over the debate moderators. He also accused the two moderators of siding with Clinton and refusing to let him answer questions.
The interruptions prompted Clinton to exclaim, “I know that you’re into big diversions tonight.”
Trump desperately needed a strong debate performance against Clinton, with stakes sky-high following intense scrutiny of his treatment of women and damaging footage of him making lewd remarks.
His unprecedented, outside-the-establishment presidential bid, and the embattled Republican Party with it, was thrown into disarray by his comments, caught on a hot mic, with growing calls from top Republicans for him to step aside.
Earlier in the debate, Trump repeated his assertion that his boasts of grabbing women’s genitals and forcibly kissing them were mere “locker room talk,” as Clinton said they showed he was unfit to serve as president.
“Certainly I’m not proud of it, but this is locker room talk,” Trump said when confronted by the moderator at the outset of the second presidential debate about the comments.
Clinton fired back: “This is who Donald Trump is, and the question for us, the question our country must answer is that this is not who we are.”
Trump also accused Clinton’s husband, former president Bill Clinton, of being “abusive to women.”
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