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President-elect Donald Trump continues to face backlash after appearing to back off his campaign mantra of working to "lock [Hillary Clinton] up".

"Clinton Cash" author Peter Schweizer told Megyn Kelly it was "deeply disturbing" for Trump and his top adviser to suggest that they do not want to see Clinton prosecuted.

"He shouldn't be talking about this at all," he said, adding that it is "equally inappropriate" for Trump to perceptively interfere in a federal investigation as it would be for President Barack Obama to do so.

"If he wants to pardon her on the tail end of an investigation... [he] is fine to do that," Schweizer said.

"Seventy-five percent of the American people believe that the elites don't have to abide by the same laws as the rest of us... we need to find out what happened."

They agreed that Clinton either committed a crime or she didn't and the FBI investigation should continue without any input from politicians.

Trump's apparent backtrack yesterday led to a Breitbart News headline calling out the "broken promise."

Breitbart calls Trump not pursuing charges against Clinton a “broken promise” pic.twitter.com/TpoJlnN42u — Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) November 22, 2016

A number of conservatives also gave their reactions to Trump's comments, on Twitter:

Whoa! I thought we elected @realDonaldTrump president. Did we make him the FBI, & DOJ? His job is to pick those guys, not do their jobs. https://t.co/8JCQOO0dSF — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 22, 2016

Well, he's not even president yet, but it looks like @realDonaldTrump already pardoned a turkey for Thanksgiving. https://t.co/ng61pHIQI6 — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) November 22, 2016

Trump said he wouldn't pursue charges against Clinton but never said that Sessions wouldn't... — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 22, 2016

As happy as I am that our long national nightmare's over, NO president shld be blocking investigators from doing their jobs. #EqualUnderLaw https://t.co/8JCQOO0dSF — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 22, 2016

The FBI is already all over the Clinton Foundation. Trump doesn't need to do a damned thing. Special Prosecutors are 100% an AG call. — Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 23, 2016

People are reacting like Trump announced that he'll personally impede ongoing investigations into Hillary/Clinton Foundation. (He didn't.) — Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux) November 22, 2016

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