During the second presidential debate Sunday, GOP nominee Donald Trump declared that he would appoint a special prosecutor to look into the Hillary Clinton e-mail situation because he felt the original outcome was suspect. Clinton soon after remarked that she was glad someone like him wasn’t in charge, to which Trump replied that she would be in jail. From there CNN went off the deep end with Wolf Blitzer falsely claiming, “He's going to put her in jail if he’s elected president of the United States.”

“Not to sound too corny, but what makes this country different from countries with dictators in Africa or Stalin or Hitler or any of those countries with dictators and totalitarian leaders, is that when they took over, they put their opponents in jail,” stated Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash.

CNN’s Jake Tapper also got in on the exaggeration saying:

Donald Trump saying that if he gets elected president he's going to ask his attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to put Hillary Clinton in jail. This is the kind of thing that they do in countries not like the United States, where you lock up and jail your political opponents.

CNN’s Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger described Trump’s comment as Nixonian and falsely quoted Trump as saying ""I’d put her in jail."" Borger also took exception with Trump calling Clinton a liar and claimed that he called Clinton “the devil multiple times,” even though he only called her the devil once. Borger and the panel went on to argue that these statements about Clinton are turning Trump off to voters, even though people don’t think she’s trust worthy.

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