Source: Trump will not seek to prosecute Hillary Clinton

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Jazz Shaw

November 22, 2016

 

This is just coming out this morning and it’s only attributed on background to “a source” with knowledge of the transition team’s thinking, but Donald Trump is supposedly not going to pursue any prosecution of Secretary Hillary Clinton over her email transgressions or even the pay to play activities of the Clinton Global Initiative. The story popped up on MSNBC’s Morning Joe during the first hour and it immediately prompted questions as to why this would be coming out now. (To be fair, there wasn’t a rush of other folks confirming the veracity of the source.) Perhaps it’s something to do with the fact that Barack Obama is about to pardon a turkey so Trump felt a matching gesture of magnanimous generosity was called for. In any event, the show put it out on Twitter as coming directly to Joe Scarborough from the source in question.

 

Source tells @joenbc that @realDonaldTrump won't pursue investigations into @HillaryClinton for private email server use/Clinton Foundation.

 

— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) November 22, 2016

In the second hour of the show, former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway came on and sort of confirmed the report, saying, “… if the President Elect is telling you this before he even takes office..” so take that for what it’s worth.

 

Assuming this is true it probably ties in with speculation which was percolating before the election was even over. CNN covered it during the first days after the campaign and offered a few reasons why Trump would probably give her a pass, though not a pardon. These include:

 

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