After the raucous second presidential debate Sunday night, the news networks evaluated Republican Donald Trump’s and Democrat Hillary Clinton’s performances mainly by roundtables of reporters and pundits discussing prominent exchanges.
Dana Bash, CNN’s chief political correspondent, picked up on a particularly noteworthy comment Trump made almost under his breath early in the debate.
Clinton finished a response to an exchange about her email servers by saying “it’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.”
During debate, Trump blithely says he would imprison Hillary if he were president
Trump retorted, as he walked back toward his chair, “because you’d be in jail.” The crowd first reacted with cheers, then with boos.
After the debate, Bash said to Wolf Blitzer and John King, “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. To hear one presidential candidate, say, even if it was a flip comment, which it was, ‘you’re going to be in jail’ to another presidential candidate in the debate stage in the United States of America?”
“Stunning. Just stunning.”
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https://thinkprogress.org/after-trump-talks-about-jailing-clinton-media-draw-comparisons-to-dictators-4a770c4adc83#.r1ld5znbu
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