The theme of the opening night of the 2016 Republican National Convention was "Make America Safe Again," and among the gloomy and downright terrifying picture of the world painted by the night's roster of speakers, one unsurprising culprit emerged: Hillary Clinton. Clinton, a former U.S. senator, first lady, and current presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has not held a government job since she stepped down as secretary of state in early 2013, so the Republican convention planners spent a good portion of the night talking about the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, as well as the more recent Clinton scandal involving her use of a private server as secretary of state.
It was during the Benghazi section that the Republican delegates started chanting, "Lock her up!" Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a Trump military adviser and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, followed Melania Trump later in the night, and in the video below, you can watch him deciding to join in the chanting:
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