Trump aide suggests he wants no Clinton probe

Similarly, on the issue of torture, the president-elect said that he has changed his mind after his meeting with Gen (rtd) James Mattis, whom he is considering to appoint as the Defence Secretary.

He said he’s no longer interested in his businesses and his children will be handling his enterprises. “I think it would be very, very divisive for the country”.

“It does seem like an extraordinary breach of protocol for (Trump) to get involved in that decision (to investigate Clinton)”, Glen A. Kopp, a former federal prosecutor in NY, told The Times. However, a front page story in the Times on Tuesday morning strongly suggested, in measured terms, that Trump’s vast foreign holdings could represent a violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.

Trump said he wanted to “move forward” from the subject. He added that the Clintons are “good people” and “I don’t want to hurt them”. “For these powerful people to be marched to the tower of Trump to get their heads cut off – figuratively speaking – is not the positive imagery they could have hoped for”. “The campaign was vicious”.

But on Tuesday, he said he would “keep an open mind” about pulling the United States out of the landmark, multi-national Paris Agreement on climate change – he’d said in the campaign he would yank the US out – and he allowed, “I think there is some connectivity” between human activity and climate changes. Mad Dog for a reason.

He did say, however, that he’s taking into account the impact on United States businesses, “how much it will cost our companies” and the impact on American competitiveness, he told the Times.

Trump had said while campaigning that he’d bring back interrogation techniques “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding”.

At the same time, he said he would like to do something and create “some kind of arrangement” to separate his business from his work in the government.

The reversal is a broken promise for those who wore “Hillary for Prison 2016” T-shirts at rallies and chanted “Lock her up!”-which became something of an unofficial slogan of the Trump campaign”.

“I’m going to think about it”, he told “60 Minutes“.

Then: “We ought to open up the libel laws, and I’m going to do that”.

Trump Foundation’s IRS tax filings for 2015 indicates that it transferred “income or assets to a disqualified person”, the report said, and stressed that Trump could be that person. “Nobody left there in a huff, nobody has called me to complain that they felt that they had been bamboozled”.

But the reaction from Democrats was a mix of gratefulness with the outcome and annoyance that Trump gets to look magnanimous for deciding to not prosecute a case he likely wouldn’t have won.

Trump is asked about concerns from minority groups about Breitbart News’s coverage under Steve Bannon. I will say this: Hillary Clinton has to go to jail, OK?