GOP ex-prosecutors slam Trump over threat to 'jail' Clinton
Source: Politico
By Josh Gerstein
10/10/16 12:25 PM EDT
Donald Trump's debate-night vow to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's email set-up and put her "in jail" provoked a sharp blowback from former U.S. prosecutors, who said Trump's view of the Justice Department serving the whims of the president is antithetical to the American system.
While presidents appoint the attorney general, they do not make decisions on who to prosecute for crimes -- and were Trump to do so, prosecutors warned he would spark a Constitutional crisis similar to that of the "Saturday Night Massacre" in the Nixon administration. In that case, Nixon attempted to fire the prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal, and the top two Justice Department officials resigned on the spot.
Former Republican appointees to senior Justice Department posts used words like "abhorrent" and "absurd" and "terrifying" to describe Trump's threat to Clinton.
"For Donald Trump to say he will have a special prosecutor appointed and to have tried and convicted her already and say she'd go to jail is wholly inappropriate and the kind of talk more befitting a third-world country than it is our democracy," said Paul Charlton, who spent a decade as a federal prosecutor before serving as U.S. Attorney for Arizona under President George W. Bush.
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The photo of Trump's smug, stupid face says it all.