Bernie Sanders: It Would Be ‘An Outrage’ If Donald Trump Prosecuted Hillary Clinton

The Huffington Post ^ | November 17, 2016 | Jennifer Bendery, White House & Congressional Reporter

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Thursday it would be an “outrage” if President-elect Donald Trump followed through with threats to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state.

“It would be almost beyond comprehension to think that a new president would be involved in the prosecution of his opponent who ended up getting some 2 million more votes than he did,” Sanders told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.

“It would completely divide this country. It would be an outrage,” he said. “I would hope very, very, very much that Mr. Trump understands that is not something he should do.”

Trump regularly attacked Clinton on the campaign trail for the FBI probe into her email use, vowing during the second presidential debate that he would instruct his attorney general to investigate her over it. The FBI concluded there was no intentional wrongdoing and recommended no criminal charges, but that didn’t stop Trump’s criticisms.

Rudy Giuliani, whose name has been floated for a potential attorney general or secretary of state under Trump, suggested as recently as this week that the president-elect still might take legal action against Clinton....

[lacrew]

Dear Bernie,

What is your threshold for tolerating Clinton lawlessness?

Apparently she is special, so how far can she go?

[showme_the_Glory]

better to look the other way on criminals

[Chewbarkah]

So Hillary isn’t alone, how about a special prosecutor going after the both of them for conspiracy to rig the Democrat Party nomination process via Bernie only pretending to be a candidate, then going away quietly for cash? Smells like fraud.

[Stentor]

Yes, I hope that Trump, and the Congress, too, will just take the shackles off the FBI and allow them to do an honest investigation.

Isn't that toilet going to be flushed, first.

[kosciusko51]

At least Bernie is a “honest” politician: he stays bought.

[hal ogen]

No, bernie. It would be an outrage if President-elect Trump doesn’t exile all of your DIMocRAT fools.

[trebb]

Trump never said he would prosecute Hillary - he said if he was President she would have been in jail - all he has to do is enforce the laws and the system will prosecute her....

[Phlap]

The colonel should stick to frying chicken.

[mlo]

Hillary should have been in jail long before she set up a private email server.

The new Attorney General should explain to Comey that he misread what legal intent means, and that the case is to be referred to DoJ prosecutors to decide.

[PTBAA]

What’s the matter Bernie, worried that the details of you payoff might turn up?

[Boogieman]

No, it would be an outrage if someone who has clearly violated multiple federal laws can get away scot free just because she has political influence.

[HamiltonJay]

She either did, or did not break the law... if she did, she deserves prosecuted, PERIOD. Tired of these liberal excuses...

[Grim]

It's not up to Trump. It's up to a Grand Jury and that is made up of citizens, not politicians. This is what should have happened the first time but Comey and Lynch ignored Hillary's crimes not to mention lies to Congress and under oath. Nobody in their right mind could afford to ignore that.

In additional to the above, there's the matter of six billion dollars stolen from Haiti and the six billion dollars missing from the State Department. Trump owes it to the taxpayers to find out what happened.

[vpintheak]

Once again. The lefties have is bass-ackwards.

[ConsCA]

Bernie. Go away and enjoy your lake side home.

[nathanbedford]

Unfortunately for Hillary her criminality is not about her, it is about the rule of law. I say unfortunately because we have been down this road before with Hillary when Ken Starr concluded, much for political reasons, that he would not bring indictments against Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater/Lewinsky investigation, an investigation which explored numerous acts of potential criminality by Hillary involving FBI records, law office records, lying, and obstruction of justice to name just some of the potential crimes which come the memory after nearly 20 years.

Not a bit chastised by her escape from justice, Hillary embarked on a career of profiteering from her office on a massive scale. When she was in Arkansas as the wife of the attorney general's soon-to-be governor she had sold those offices for $100,000 in the cattle futures bribery matter. 40 years later as Secretary of State, she was selling out her nation's security for hundreds of millions of dollars. She set up an illegal server in a premeditated scheme to conceal her venality she did this quite heedless of the obvious risks to the national security and in obvious violation of the espionage act. She had the evil intent to clandestinely sell her office and use the Clinton Foundation as a slush fund to finance her political ambitions as well as her own luxurious lifestyle, yet another criminal intent motivating her to install the illegal server.

These crimes constitute the most serious corruption in American history because they have been done at the highest level. The betrayal of security potentially rivals that of the Rosenbergs in risk to the nation. There can be no question of Hillary's guilty mens rea. She is a highly educated attorney who was well briefed in the law and regulations concerning the maintenance of confidential information and the ethics required of a cabinet officer. Her violation of law was knowing, deliberate and part of the greater scheme. She knowingly participated in a felonious conspiracy with her husband to trade on their prominence and their offices.

Her prominence as former first lady, Senator, Secretary of State, and nominated presidential candidate only makes her actions more blameworthy and the need to submit her to justice the more necessary for the national good.

Others of lower political station or of no political station of any kind have been prosecuted and seriously punished for each of these crimes which in degree are trivial when compared to the transgressions of Hillary Clinton.

To pardon Hillary or to decline to prosecute Hillary Clinton under these damning circumstances would be to inflict a blow to the body politic and leave the rule of law in shatters hastening the substitution of cynicism for justice and bring our Democratic Republic even closer to disintegration.

[gundog]

I think an accounting of the $6B lost at State on H’s watch is owed the American people.

[Bodega]

Yes, yes, I thought you were cowardly in the beginning and would cow to the Clintonistas because you don’t understand evil. I think it is time for you to go home.

[left that other site]

I would LOVE to see an investigation.

And wouldn’t it be ironic if such an investigation proved that hillery used illegal methods to wrest the nomination from Bernie, who was a much more popular character during the primaries.

Just thinking out loud...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bernie is 74 years old and looks every day of it. He would not have defeated Trump in a presidential election.