A top official of Donald Trump's presidential campaign on Tuesday reaffirmed signals sent by the president-elect that he's not interested in pursuing criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, despite his repeated campaign promises to prosecute the Democratic nominee over her handling of classified materials and involvement in the Clinton Foundation. Kellyanne Conway, Trump's former campaign manager, also told MSNBC that congressional Republicans should follow Trump's lead, suggesting they drop their own probes into Clinton. Trump had promised his supporters that he would re-investigate whether Clinton broke laws while using a private email server as the nation's secretary of State, even after the FBI concluded she had not. During a presidential debate, he even pledged to assign a special prosecutor to look into the matter. The FBI has not commented on the status of any investigations into the Clinton Foundation.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 22, 2016 17:20 UTC