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Hillary Clinton would welcome special prosecutor

Hillary Clinton says she’s disappointed that President-elect Donald Trump has reneged on his campaign promise to appoint an independent special prosecutor to look into his claim that she should be locked up for unspecified crimes.
“Conservatives have already blown through more than 40 million taxpayer dollars trying unsuccessfully to prove my husband and I are guilty of criminal activity – any criminal activity,” Clinton said. “I see no reason the Trump administration shouldn’t blow another $40 million. I’ve committed no crimes.”
But if he appoints a special prosecutor to rake through Clinton’s past, she wants him to appoint a second one to scrutinize his own.
“Let’s see what sort of criminal activity a prosecutor can turn up when looking into his business practices,” Clinton says.
It’s unlikely Trump will grant either wish.
“I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t,” he said Tuesday. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.”
Clinton isn’t impressed.
“He’s going to go easy on me because I’ve suffered greatly in many different ways?” she scoffs. “I’ve endured 30 years of baseless, sniveling lies from the far right. They convinced voters that I’m dishonest, that I’m untrustworthy. So be it. But I’m not going to take it anymore. And don’t expect me to be grateful for Donald Trump declaring that I’ve suffered enough.”
She says that if a special prosecutor concludes that she is guilty of malfeasance during her tenure as Secretary of State, she expects to be sharing her cell with those predecessors whose methods of operation she emulated.
She also predicts that any special prosecutor who accepts the challenge of coming up with something to pin on her will find it a thankless job and should expect to be accused of a white wash before the investigation even begins. Charges will have to be filed if the special prosecutor ever hopes to show his face again at conservative fund-raising events, she says.
She’s confident, however, that justice will prevail.
“I’m not guilty of anything,” she says, “but that’s not the way it will be reported in the media – the media will declare that there wasn’t enough evidence to convict me.”
She says that if she is acquitted of any charges arising from a special prosecutor’s investigation, she will demand that Trump cover her legal expenses – from his own pocket, not from the U.S. Treasury.
Clinton balked at the suggestion that her attitude will not help heal the deep divisions in American society.
“In other words, take it like a lady, huh?” she says.
“Look,” she adds, “the deep divisions in American society are not going to be healed by me or anyone else as long as media giants like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh fill the airwaves with reports from the fact-free zone. Division is their bread and butter. Unless they constantly fan the hostility, they’re out of work.”