President Trump suggested Tuesday that former top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin should maybe, kinda go to jail. Apparently in response to a Daily Caller report that Abedin had sent government passwords to her personal Yahoo account before Yahoo accounts were breached, Trump argued that this kind of thing is a jail-able offense.
“Remember sailors pictures on submarine?” Trump said, apparently referring to a Navy man who was sentenced to prison for taking photos on a nuclear submarine. “Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others.”
Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey & others
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018
If you've got a sense of deja vu, it's because Trump has sentenced plenty of people to his own personal jail. Yet the man who asserted last week that he has total control of the Justice Department has not seen fit to act on that power, meaning that many of the following people have thus far been spared.
Here are the many people Trump has suggested should be in jail:
1. Abedin
2. Clinton: (Too many quotes to count here)
Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail. Instead she is running for president in what looks like a rigged election
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2016
3. Those UCLA basketball players
Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2017
Shoplifting is a very big deal in China, as it should be (5-10 years in jail), but not to father LaVar. Should have gotten his son out during my next trip to China instead. China told them why they were released. Very ungrateful!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2017
4. Members of the gang MS-13 and criminal illegal immigrants: “We will find you, we will arrest you, we will jail you and we will deport you.”
5. Snoop Dogg (for this video featuring a mock execution of a clown resembling Trump)
Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2017
6. Chelsea Manning
Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2017
7. Bowe Bergdahl: “In the old days, when we were strong as a country, he would have been shot. He would have been — like, fast trial — fair trial, fast trial, boom, if he's guilty, he's gone. Right? That would have been 40, 50 years ago. Twenty years ago, at least he'd been in prison for a long time. Ten years ago, he would have been in prison, maybe for a short time. Now they're talking about nothing!”
8. People who burn the flag
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016
9. People who immigrate illegally more than once: “When they come in once, we deport 'em. When they come in twice, they go to jail for five years. When they come in another one, it'll be 10 years.”
10. Paid “thugs” who interrupt his rallies: “So it came out through WikiLeaks that we had thugs — thugs who should be put in jail, by the way — they attacked policemen in addition to our people, but they were paying thugs. Hillary Clinton was paying thugs $1,500 each plus an iPhone, and they were paying these thugs to go in and disturb our rallies and get into fights.”
(These charges were unfounded.)
11. Ted Cruz and John Kasich, for reaching an agreement to try to prevent Trump from getting the number of delegates he needed: “It's collusion. In business, you go to jail for that.”
12. A protester who rushed the stage and whom Trump wrongly accused of having ties to the Islamic State
USSS did an excellent job stopping the maniac running to the stage. He has ties to ISIS. Should be in jail! https://t.co/tkzbHg7wyD?ssr=true
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 12, 2016
13. People who don't share information about terrorist attacks: “If it can be proven that somebody had information about any attack and did not give this information to authorities, they must serve prison time.”
14. Steve Rattner, the Obama auto czar who paid $10 million in fines related to a pension scheme but was never charged criminally
.@SteveRattner While I think you should have gone to prison for what you did, I guess Obama saved you. But watch – I will win!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2015
15. President Obama (kind of)
Obama never consulted with Congress about a prisoner exchange. HE BROKE THE LAW AND SHOULD BE TRIED. OUR PRESIDENT IS A TOTAL DISASTER!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2014