Interviewer: The emails, Mr. President, suggest essentially that Hillary Clinton personally approved the Russia hoax.
Pres Trump: With Obama.
Interviewer: With Barack Obama. And my question is, is she finally going to pay for what she did, or does she get a pass again?
Pres Trump: We had her, and I had her right under the sights. And I told the people, look, you can't do this to a president's wife, an ex-president's [wife]. And she was Secretary of State. But you can't do this to the wife of a president.
If you remember, I was at a rally, and it was after the election. And they said, lock her up, lock her up. And I said, no, no, no, look, we won. Just relax. And I didn't do what other people would have done, what they would have done.
And then they went after me, and they meant it. I said, you know, it's amazing. I felt, always felt, that you shouldn't be doing this stuff. And I let Hillary off the hook. I totally let her off the hook. And then I let her off the hook, you know, for what? And then I come in, and they did the same thing to me. The difference is they actually meant it.
They hurt a lot of people, a lot of people. And it was all a hoax. And now they have it in black and white. No, I think they should pay a price.
By the way, that's a very big price. It could be the biggest scandal in the history of our country, but it continues onward. And that continues onward. You know, that scandal has continued from the beginning. Everything they do is a hoax. They're no good at anything other than some forms of nasty politics.
