Fact check: Trump falsely claims he didn't call to lock up Hillary Clinton

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : 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.
41% : "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.
35% : At an October 2020 rally in Georgia, after the crowd chanted "lock them up" in relation to the Biden family, Trump said, "You should lock them up.
27% : Trump, who faces the possibility of a prison sentence after he was convicted last week on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, was asked in an interview aired Sunday on Fox News about how he had "famously said... 'lock her up'" in relation to Clinton but did not jail her when he was president.
13% : "Trump softened his rhetoric shortly after he defeated Clinton in the election, saying he didn't want to hurt her and didn't feel strongly about prosecuting her.
10% : Trump also explicitly called for Clinton's imprisonment using different phrasing.
9% : During his answer, Trump said he had decided that imprisoning Clinton "would have been a terrible thing."
5% : "Trump often used such rhetoric while criticizing Clinton's email practices as secretary of state during the Obama administration, which prompted a federal investigation.
2% : And at a presidential debate in October 2016, after Clinton said, "It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country," Trump responded, "Because you'd be in jail.

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