When President-elect Donald Trump’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said Monday that Trump “doesn’t wish to pursue” charges against Hillary Clinton for using a private email server as Secretary of State, conservative news outlets and personalities broadcast their own sense of whiplash.
With the dogged, quarter century pursuit of criminal charges against Clinton perhaps finally at its end, some conservatives outlets demanded justice one last time:
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, whose organization’s FOIA requests were a near constant thorn in the Clinton campaign campaign’s side, released a scathing statement Tuesday calling for Trump to “commit his administration to a serious, independent investigation of the very serious Clinton national security, email, and pay-to-play scandals.”
“If Mr. Trump’s appointees continue the Obama administration’s politicized spiking of a criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton, it would be a betrayal of his promise to the American people to “drain the swamp” of out-of-control corruption in Washington, DC,” the statement continued.
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter seemed to defend Trump at first, before urging him to avoid “blocking investigators from doing their jobs.”
Whoa! I thought we elected @realDonaldTrump president. Did we make him the FBI, & DOJ? His job is to pick those guys, not do their jobs. https://t.co/8JCQOO0dSF
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 22, 2016
As happy as I am that our long national nightmare’s over, NO president shld be blocking investigators from doing their jobs. #EqualUnderLaw https://t.co/8JCQOO0dSF
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 22, 2016
And Bill Mitchell, the Twitter and radio personality and, apparently, ever the Trump loyalist, painted the news as part of a complex political long game:
Hillary has been sent to the political prison of irrelevance.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 22, 2016
Be careful about giving the Democrats a martyr. Remove all of the handholds and they will fall on their own.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 22, 2016
If the FBI recommends seating of a Grand Jury in the Clinton Foundation, I’m sure Sessions will allow it. Keep it non-political.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 22, 2016
After 8 years of Obama’s politicization of Justice and the FBI, I’m glad we will have a POTUS who remains arm’s length.#DoThingsRight
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 22, 2016
Trump may have just rope-a-doped Obama into not pardoning Hillary.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 22, 2016
If in poker you get dealt 4 aces, you don’t scream, “I’ve got 4 aces!,” you pretend you’ve got nothing until the pot is in.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 22, 2016
Future Trump: ‘We did not intend to prosecute Hillary, but we cannot ignore the request of the FBI for a grand jury…”
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 22, 2016
