I may be crazy, but I’m not stupid about the election
Trump himself has appeared to waver on whether he would want to seek further probes into possible wrongdoing by the Clintons.
They are told who to choose by the voters in their state during the election. Carson is expected to respond after the holiday. Trump said some people could argue that the foundation did “good work”.
And there was more: “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t”, he said during a meeting with the paper’s staff members Tuesday morning.
While Trump secured well over the 270 Electoral College votes needed to beat Hillary Clinton, his Democrat rival won the popular vote with more than 1.7million more ballots than him. He adds that Breitbart “didn’t get a scoop from the campaign from the minute I took over; they’ve had to scramble like everybody else”.
Chants of “Lock her up” echoed throughout his campaign rallies, with Trump supporters angrily alleging corruption related to her use of a private email server while secretary of state and to foreign contributions received by the Clinton Foundation charity.
Trump’s Republican Party has a majority in the House of Representatives – so it still looks good for him.
The change of tune has angered some of his conservative supporters.
But in a wide-ranging interview at The New York Times, Trump was unapologetic about flouting the traditional ethical and political conventions that have long shaped the American presidency. Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey, a Republican, ultimately determined that “no reasonable prosecutor” would press criminal charges based on the evidence.
“Even though the attorney general reports to the president, the Department of Justice is meant to exercise a degree of independence from the White House entirely to avoid the perception that political considerations, rather than legal ones, are behind decisions to (or to not) prosecute”, Vladeck said in an email.
It’s not the first time Coulter disagrees with Trump. While in the past, Mr. Trump has dismissed climate change as a “hoax”, in the meeting with the Times, when he was asked whether he thought it was related to human activity, he said, “I think there is some connectivity”.
Rudy Giuliani, a vice chairman of Trump’s transition team, told reporters a decision not to investigate would be consistent with a United States tradition “that after you win an election, you sort of put things behind you”. “In theory, I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly”, he said.
– Disavowed white nationalist sympathizers who celebrated his election during a conference in Washington over the weekend.
He quoted Trump saying: “It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about”.
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But detractors are likely to see Trump’s comments as yet more evidence that he does not understand or respect the division between the executive and judicial branches.