Trump: I'll have 'lots of options' to go after Clinton when I win

Donald Trump will have “lots of options” to go after Hillary Clinton if he’s elected president, he told supporters Friday.

At a rally in Fletcher, North Carolina, Trump again dubbed his opponent “the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency,” a charged comment that sparked raucous chants of “lock her up” from his supporters.


The Republican presidential nominee then responded to the chants with an uncharacteristic suggestion, similar to President Barack Obama’s counsel to “don’t boo, vote.”

“Well, let’s do this. Let’s do this,” he advised. “Nov. 8, let’s win. Let’s win. Let’s win.”

But he added: “We win, we have lots of options. But we gotta win.”

Based on his past rhetoric, Trump’s options would include re-investigating the email controversy that has dogged Clinton’s campaign and, as he said in March, appointing Supreme Court justices.

Trump has labeled Clinton a criminal for using a private email server when she led the State Department and deleting thousands of emails, arguing that the Democratic presidential nominee shouldn’t even be allowed to run.

He has since ramped up his rhetoric, threatening during the second presidential debate to jail the former secretary of state. Trump has said Clinton belongs in jail and vowed to, if elected, ask his attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Clinton’s email controversy. The real estate mogul has also said he will have the FBI’s now-closed investigation into Clinton’s server investigated.

While his campaign manager tried to walk back his threat to jail Clinton as “a quip,” Trump has doubled down on his pledge.

And, perhaps unfamiliar with how the Supreme Court works, Trump said during the Republican primary he would “probably appoint people that would look very seriously at her email disaster because it’s criminal activity.”

“And I would appoint people that would look very seriously at that to start off with,” he told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in late March, adding that Clinton is getting away with “murder.”

“If she’s able to get away with that,” he said then, “you can get away with anything.”