Trump revisits 2016 election to claim if he did what Hillary did, he'd have been put in the electric chair

President Trump.
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President Donald Trump took a stroll down memory lane during his press conference Thursday, revisiting the 2016 presidential election in the form of a hypothetical scenario where he'd been fed debate questions.

"Nobody mentions that Hillary [Clinton] received the questions to the debates," Trump told the press. "Can you imagine, seriously, that I received the questions? It would be the electric chair. 'He should be put in the electric chair.' You would even call for the reinstatement of the death penalty." Watch below. Jeva Lange

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