Toward the end of the 2016 election, then-candidate Donald Trump infamously told Hillary Clinton that if he became president, “you’d be in jail.” When at the 11th hour of the election the FBI announced it was further probing Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state, Trump responded, “This is the biggest political scandal since Watergate, and it’s everybody’s deepest hope that justice at last will be beautifully delivered.”
But shortly after Trump was elected, it seemed, delivering justice was no longer needed. He suddenly didn’t want to put Clinton in jail anymore. “It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about,” he said, adding that, “I’m not looking to go back and go through this.”
You could have been forgiven for thinking Trump was using the situation for political gain, rather than out of a sincere desire to deliver justice. Continue reading.