Trump: Clinton ‘has to go to jail’

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that Hillary Clinton should go to jail for deleting tens of thousands of emails from the private server she used while serving as secretary of State.

Trump reiterated his call for a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton if he’s elected to the White House and took aim at the FBI’s decision not to recommend criminal charges against Clinton, though the FBI director called her actions “extremely careless.”

{mosads}”This corruption is just one more reason that I will ask my attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor, and furthermore we’re going to investigate this phony investigation,” Trump said during a rally in Lakeland, Fla.

“After getting the subpoena to give over your emails and lots of other things, she deleted the emails. She has to go to jail,” he added.

Clinton has long maintained that the 33,000 deleted emails from her time as secretary of State were personal, separate from the thousands she turned over to the State Department for archiving.

Trump has continued to rip into Clinton over the issue, ramping up his criticism with less than a month to go until Election Day. Still, some Republicans have pushed back on his push to appoint a special prosecutor, which he raised in Sunday’s presidential debate.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a vocal Trump critic, said Wednesday that threatening to put a political opponent in jail is “not who we are” as Americans.

“Republicans should not be okay with @realDonaldTrump threatening to jail his opponent after the election,” Flake tweeted.

Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway earlier this week chalked up Trump’s comment as a “quip” during the debate.

“Whether she goes to jail is not up to Donald Trump. It’s up to whoever adjudicates whatever crime she has or has not committed,” Conway said during a Monday interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”