Breitbart Calls Donald Trump Out For ‘Broken Promise’ to Lock Hillary Up

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Donald Trump isn’t even president yet, but it looks like his honeymoon with Breitbart News could be over. After the president-elect’s transition team said Tuesday that he does not plan to push for criminal investigations of former rival Hillary Clinton, the hard-right news site that was one of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders during the campaign called him out in a sharply-worded headline: “BROKEN PROMISE: TRUMP ‘DOESN’T WISH TO PURSUE’ CLINTON EMAIL CHARGES.”

The accompanying article was a summary of remarks Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway made earlier in the day on MSNBC. Conway said Trump is “thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the president of the United States, and things that sound like the campaign are not among them.”

As The Post’s Philip Bump put it, “there’s a tacit admission there that Trump’s insistence that he would prosecute Clinton was all campaign rhetoric.”

This shouldn’t come as a shock, but it is epically disappointing to Trump fans who chanted “lock her up!” at rallies because that is one promise they seemed to treat not as a metaphorical pledge, but as one they believed he would deliver on.

The “broken promise” headline lends credence to something Stephen Bannon told the Wall Street Journal last week. Bannon, who will be Trump’s chief White House strategist, was Breitbart’s chairman until he joined the campaign in August.

Now he will take an “extended leave of absence and cut all association with the site while I’m working at the pleasure of the president.” He adds that Breitbart “didn’t get a scoop from the campaign from the minute I took over; they’ve had to scramble like everybody else.”

(c) 2016, The Washington Post · Callum Borchers

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  1. what a lying & corrupt world we are living in today. yes the world is corrupt not only politicians. i’m honestly ashamed to be living in such a corrupt & dishonest world where our own brethren are dishonest with one another & cheat each other in many ways R”L & is a major chillul Hashem

    YOU can do tshuva today & return to being an honest yid & making a kiddush Hashem throughout the world.

    can you comfort me & tell me why i should not be ashamed to be living in such a corrupt world today when HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY & IS MY TOP PRIORITY IN LIFE?

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