During the 2016 campaign, former President Donald Trump argued that had Hillary Clinton been indicted over her homebrew server it would cause a constitutional crisis.
“We could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial,” Trump said at a November 2016 rally. “It would grind government to a halt.”
He also made a similar comment at a Nov. 3, 2016 rally.
“If she were to win, it would create an unprecedented Constitutional crisis that would cripple the operations of our government,” he said. “She is likely to be under investigation for many years, and also it will probably end up — in my opinion — in a criminal trial. I mean, you take a look. Who knows? But it certainly looks that way.”
Trump commented as former FBI Director James Comey announced he was relaunching the investigation into Clinton’s server. A week earlier, a laptop belonging to former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner was found to contain emails from the former Secretary of State. Weiner was married to Clinton’s chief aide Huma Abedin.
Democrats were irked during the 2016 campaign by Trump’s “Lock her up” chants at his rallies. After the campaign, Trump said it was just for show.
“No, it’s okay,” Trump said as the crowd jeered in December 2016 in reference to Clinton. “Forget it. That plays great before the election. Now, we don’t care, right?”
Democrats Plot to Get Trump After 2016 Election
Democrats held a conference at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Washington, D.C. in November 2016 after the election at which they plotted how they would take down Trump and theorized that the 2016 elections had been hacked by the Russians. They created a network of organizations that would work to stop Trump at every turn.
In 2017, the Democrat-aligned group Momentum talked about how Progressive groups could “could block Trump’s agenda, remove him from office, and ignite a progressive revolution.”
While Democrats talked impeachment they also separately talked about indicting Trump.
Democrats were openly talking about prosecuting Trump before he left office. They first discussed it during the Mueller investigation, which was proven by the subsequent Durham investigation to have been based on false information concocted by Democrats and rogue elements in the FBI and Intelligence Community.
Four years before it happened, Democrats were talking about indicting Trump over his involvement with the payoff to former porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump Turns Back on Prior Position
Now that the shoe is on the other foot and Trump is on a mission to regain the presidency, his former comments ring hollow.
Trump believes he is the victim of a “witch hunt” amid the slew of looming state and federal prosecutions and pending civil actions.
“They’ve launched one witch hunt after another to try and stop our movement, to thwart the will of the American people,” Trump said last month in the wake of his federal indictment in Georgia, later telling the crowd that, “In the end, they’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you.”
In addition to Trump’s already existing prosecutions, he faces possible indictments for his involvement in the Capitol riot on the federal level and for intimidation of Georgia election officials on the state level.
Part of the reason the indictments aren’t hurting Trump as badly in the polls is the Democrats spent the past seven years waging lawfare to undermine him. As a result, everything is seen as purely political regardless of the legal merits.
A conservative opinion writer for 19FortyFive, John Rossomando is a senior analyst for Defense Policy and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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