Given all that Hillary has done and Trump’s call to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her, one has to conclude that Obama is considering a pardon for her to save her from future prosecution over her email server, especially since she just lost the election.
The White House was asked about it this morning and they basically dodged it.
Via DC Examiner, here’s what the White House actually said:
“As you know, the president has offered clemency to a substantial number of Americans who were previously serving time in federal prisons, and we didn’t talk in advance about the president’s plans to offer clemency to any of those individuals,” Earnest told reporters on Wednesday upon being asked about Donald Trump’s threat in the final presidential debate to jail Clinton if he made it to the Oval Office.
“We don’t talk about the president’s thinking… with respect to any particular cases that may apply to any pardons or commutations,” Earnest said when asked about Clinton’s case.
He then went on to suggest that Trump to forget the whole thing or something:
“What I would direct your attention to, though, is the president’s observation that he made in the Rose Garden about the tone that President-elect Trump displayed in his remarks last night, and that tone is consistent with the longstanding traditions of our democracy,” he said. “That’s relevant because we’ve got a long tradition in this country of people in power not using the criminal justice system to exact political revenge. In fact, we go to great lengths to insulate our justice system from partisan politics.”
Oh he has some nerve saying this, especially considering how Obama and his cronies used the IRS to exact political revenge against conservative groups.
Whatever. I expect Obama to pardon Hillary but if for some reason he doesn’t, I expect Trump to do as he said and push for a special prosecutor, or appoint one outright if he can.
I’m glad Hillary lost the election, but she is still not above the law.