A few days before the 2016 presidential election, the Republican candidate told his supporters that Hillary Clinton should not run for president as long as she was under investigation by federal authorities.
A few days before the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump said that anyone involved in a federal investigation must be barred from the presidency to avoid a “constitutional crisis.”
Trump has now been found guilty on 34 counts of covering up an illegal plot to rig that election. He remains charged on three other counts and continues to campaign for another term in the White House.
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Shortly after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty in his first criminal trial on May 31, TikTok user Lauren Lane reposted footage of the former president’s 2016 speech in Reno, Nevada, three days before the election.
The video reminded people of Trump’s now ironic 2016 campaign strategy in the race against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
At the campaign rally in Reno, Trump spoke about an FBI investigation into Clinton to determine whether confidential information was improperly handled on her email servers during her time as Secretary of State.
“People, people, people, she should not be allowed to run,” he said at the time. “If she were to win this election, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. In that situation, we could very well have a sitting president accused of a crime and ultimately put on trial. That would shut down the government.”
He continued: “Her current scandals and controversies will continue throughout her presidency and make it virtually impossible for her to govern and lead our country.”
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In July 2016, federal investigators concluded that Clinton’s handling of classified information did not warrant criminal prosecution.
But just eleven days before the election, FBI Director James Comey made a surprise announcement that he had reopened the investigation. The announcement was criticized because it came at a time when people were already on their way to the polls.
Two days before the election, the FBI closed its investigation again and came to the same conclusion as before: no charges should be brought against Clinton.
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Former President Donald Trump in Manhattan Criminal Court on April 15, 2024, the first day of his hush money trial
Today, Trump, who is set to be the Republican presidential nominee in July, faces prison time for his latest conviction. If elected to a second term, he will undoubtedly be dogged by scandal, with three remaining criminal cases still pending.
In one of the charges brought against Trump by the US Department of Justice after a lengthy investigation, he is accused of violating the Espionage Act by mishandling classified intelligence documents after leaving the White House.
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PEOPLE asked Trump’s campaign about his decision to stay in the 2024 presidential race, despite previously suggesting that a president charged with a crime would be unable to govern appropriately.
Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung responded by denying Trump’s allegations and pointing to an unfounded conspiracy theory that his legal problems were engineered by President Joe Biden.
“The difference is that this is a lawless witch hunt hatched by corrupt Joe Biden and his Department of Justice against his main political opponent in an attempt to influence an election,” Cheung said in an email.
“Hillary Clinton infected her servers with BleachBit, destroyed phones, lied about her actions, and was still not prosecuted,” he claimed. “Besides, Hillary Clinton was never elected president and will never be president.”
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