President-elect Trump’s decision not to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton once he takes office will help “unite the nation,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday.
The incoming Republican president broke with his campaign promise on Tuesday when Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to his transition team, indicated that he will not pursue further investigations into his defeated Democratic opponent’s mishandling of classified information or alleged dirty dealings between the State Department and Clinton Foundation.
“I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find her to be honest or trustworthy,” Conway told MSNBC. “If Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that’s a good thing.”
Her comment was similar to one Trump himself made this month, when he said he doesn’t want to “hurt” the Clintons.
“Look, there’s a tradition in American politics that after you win an election, you sort of put things behind you,” Giuliani told reporters inside Trump Tower. “If that’s the decision he reached, that’s perfectly consistent with sort of a historical pattern of things come up, you say a lot of things, even some bad things might happen, and then you can sort of put it behind you in order to unite the nation.”
Giuliani, who has been floated as a possible secretary of state or director of national intelligence, said he would also support continued investigations of Clinton, which some congressional Republicans have said they intend to do.
“I think the president elect had a tough choice there, you could go either way,” he said. “If he made the choice to unite the nation, I think, all those people who didn’t vote against him, maybe, could take another look at him.”
