Donald Trump Backs Away From His Threat To Throw Hillary Clinton In Jail

After running a campaign that had, as one of its main rallying cries, a chant to lock up the opposition candidate, President-Elect Donald Trump has pledged to avoid doing just that.

The incoming administration will not be appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account and server while at the State Department, MSNBC’s Morning Joe reported on Tuesday. Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, confirmed as much later on the same program. However, it’s unclear how or if the incoming attorney general would follow these instructions, since they tend to have independent say over the cases they pursue.