Trump vows to jail Clinton over emails if he wins White House

A defiant Donald Trump on Sunday (October 9) vowed, if he won the White House, to put Hillary Clinton in jail for operating a private email server while U.S. secretary of state.

In a contentious town-hall debate, Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, said he would appoint a special prosecutor to look into his Democratic rival’s email use because she had endangered national security during her tenure as President Barack Obama’s chief diplomat from 2009-2013.

The 90-minute debate got off to a chilly start when the two candidates for the Nov. 8 election greeted each other without the traditional handshake.

Trump went on the attack against Clinton over her private email server, saying:

“If you did that in the private sector you would be put in jail let alone after getting a subpoena from the United States Congress.”

A nearly year-long FBI investigation into the emails concluded earlier this year without charges being filed, although FBI Director James Comey said Clinton had been careless in her handling of sensitive material.

Clinton insisted there was “no evidence” that her server had been hacked and that any classified information had ended up in the wrong hands.