Mike Pence can at least feel confident that in less than four weeks, his political career will be over. Then he can at last put down his shovel and stop trying to clean up the droppings that Donald Trump scatters across the landscape. But until then, Pence is still trying to move those piles, and for this one, he's going to need a backhoe.
Kelly O'Donnell: In the debate, Donald Trump also talked about, should your ticket win, he would appoint a special prosecutor and jail Hillary Clinton. You know, in the United States, people don’t talk about their political adversaries or opponents as being someone they have the capacity to jail or the intent to jail. Wasn’t that just too far?
Mike Pence: Of what … Kelly, I think you’re taking his comment out of context. Hillary Clinton … made a swipe at Donald Trump about being glad he wasn’t in charge of the law, and he said, well if he would then you’d be in jail. It was obviously … It was obviously just a back and forth.
Totally out of context. Just “a back and forth”—whatever that means. Except that Trump’s statement was started by Trump himself, as he launched into the special prosecutor screed all on his own. When the “lock her up” chant started at his Wilkes-Barre rally this week, Trump responded by replying:
“Lock her up is right.”
And he doubled down at another Pennsylvania rally:
"Special prosecutor, here we come, right?" Trump said as the crowd began a "lock her up" chant.
Mike Pence had a chance to run away. He didn’t. So this is his job until Nov. 8.
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