CNN: Trump Did Say “Lock Her Up” Many Times

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale reports:

Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed in a new interview that he didn’t make a “lock her up” call for the imprisonment of his Democratic opponent of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton. During campaign rallies in 2016, Trump sometimes paused his remarks as his supporters engaged in chants of “lock her up,” giving the chants time to continue. On other occasions, he explicitly repeated those words himself.

“For what she’s done, they should lock her up,” Trump said after the crowd chanted “lock her up” at an October 2016 rally in North Carolina. “‘Lock her up’ is right,” he said at an October 2016 rally in Pennsylvania. Trump also explicitly called for Clinton’s imprisonment using different phrasing. “Hillary Clinton has to go to jail, OK? She has to go to jail,” he said in a June 2016 speech in California.

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Facts First: Trump’s claim that “I didn’t say ‘lock her up’” is false. He called for {Hillary} Clinton’s imprisonment on multiple occasions, including by using the phrase “lock her up.”

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— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) June 2, 2024