Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by over 1 million more than what Mr. Trump had and if we ran elections that way she would have become the new president. Regardless of Trump’s decision, she could still face scrutiny from Republican-controlled committees in the House and Senate, as well as a Federal Election Commission investigation of her presidential campaign.
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Cook Political Report on Wednesday said Clinton had 64,225,863 votes compared to Trump’s 62,210,612 votes.
“It depends on how much”, the reporter quoted Trump as saying. Trump has a narrow lead for Michigan’s 16 electoral votes, but the election’s outcome would not change if Clinton were to pass him. She said her email crashed over the weekend after she received more than 20,000 emails. If Trump showed them that he would hold misdeeds committed in past administrations to account, that might give future bureaucrats a second thought about violating the law.
But there was some teeth-gnashing in conservative circles.
He said that the issues have been investigated “ad nauseum” and added that people could argue the Clinton Foundation has done “good work”.
– Disavowed white nationalist sympathizers who celebrated his election during a conference in Washington over the weekend. “I feel that I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on health care, I want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill. There’s never been a case like this”. But he also said he was “phasing that out now” and passing business operations on to his grown children.
“I’m not looking to go back and go through this”, the president-elect told The New York Times.
But on Tuesday, November 22nd, on MSNBC, Kellyanne Conway, President-elect Trump’s campaign manager said he does not wish to pursue any charges over Clinton’s emails, or the Clinton Foundation. That is the Justice Department. The FBI looked into whether she or her aides mishandled classified information and concluded that no one should be charged.
He was leaving late in the day for Florida for the Thanksgiving weekend.
The Republican businessman who defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton this month in one of the most divisive presidential elections in modern times actually made five separate trips to ME during his campaign, including to Lisbon just 11 days before the election.
The campaign promise to prosecute Hillary Clinton was linked to her tenure as Secretary of State when she used a private email server. That would only fuel all the protests going on around the country.
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“While the effort is unlikely to succeed – even if it did, the House of Representatives could simply choose to elect Trump – so-called faithless electors who buck the will of the voters could spur more widespread calls for reform”.
