Donald Trump's remark during Sunday's presidential debate that Hillary Clinton would "be in jail" if he were president was just a "quip," Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Monday on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "That was a quip. And I saw in NBC's own reporting, it was referred to as a 'quip,' so I'll go with NBC on it," Conway said, in response to host Willie Geist's question of whether Trump stood by that threat. Trump offhandedly remarked Sunday night that Clinton would "be in jail" for using a private email server while she was secretary of state if he'd been commander in chief at the time.
While Conway brushed off Trump's jabs about jail, she did support his suggestion that he'd get a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton and her emails if he won the White House. Trump is "channeling the frustration he hears from thousands of voters out on the stump every day" over why Clinton hasn't faced "any type of penalty for doing something where people who do far less have faced a serious penalty," Conway said.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
Bellagio: glitz and glamour on the Las Vegas StripThe Week Recommends Find la dolce vita in the Nevada desert at this luxurious hotel
-
Melting glaciers may lead to more volcanic eruptionsUnder the radar We're in for a boom
-
6 awesome surf spots for spectatorsThe Week Recommends Be a (sort of) part of the action
-
SCOTUS greenlights mass DOE firingsSpeed Read The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to further shrink the Education Department
-
Cuomo announces third-party run for NYC mayorSpeed Read He will go up against progressive Democratic powerhouse Zohran Mamdani and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams
-
Secret Service 'failures' on Trump shootingSpeed Read Two new reports detail security breakdowns that led to attempts on the president's life
-
Trump set to hit Canada with 35% tariffsSpeed Read The president accused Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney of failing to stop the cross-border flow of fentanyl
-
Mahmoud Khalil files $20M claim over ICE detentionSpeed Read This is the 'first damages complaint' brought by an individual targeted by the Trump's administration's 'crackdown' on Gaza war protesters
-
Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariffsSpeed Read He accused Brazil's current president of leading a 'witch hunt' against far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro
-
AI scammer fakes Rubio messages to top officialsSpeed Read The unknown individual mimicked Rubio in voice and text messages sent to multiple government officials
-
SCOTUS greenlights Trump's federal firingsspeed read The Trump administration can conduct mass federal firings without Congress' permission, the Supreme Court ruled
