# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3)

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**Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/5494 "2024-06-03T05:02:48Z")

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[And, as he was in the beginning and ever shall be, he’s lying now.](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/02/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claim-lock-up-hillary-clinton/index.html)

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> “For what she’s done, they should lock her up,” Trump [said](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-greensboro-nc-october-14-2016/) after the crowd chanted “lock her up” at an October 2016 rally in North Carolina.

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> “‘Lock her up’ is right,” he [said](https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-on-clinton-lock-her-up-is-right/2016/10/10/fd56d59e-8f51-11e6-bc00-1a9756d4111b_video.html) at an October 2016 rally in Pennsylvania.

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> “Hillary Clinton has to go to jail, OK? She has to go to jail,” he [said](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-san-jose-ca-june-2-2016/) in a June 2016 speech in California. “She has to go to jail,” he [repeated](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-lakeland-fl-october-12-2016/) in an October 2016 speech in Florida. And at a presidential debate in October 2016, after Clinton [said](https://www.debates.org/voter-education/debate-transcripts/october-9-2016-debate-transcript/), “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Trump responded, “Because you’d be in jail.”

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> “You should lock her up, I’ll tell you,” he [said](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-kag-rally-toledo-ohio-january-9-2020/) at a January 2020 rally in Ohio. At an October 2020 rally in Georgia, after the crowd chanted “lock them up” in relation to the Biden family, Trump [said](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-campaign-rally-macon-georgia-october-16-2020/), “You should lock them up. Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary.”

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