President-elect Donald Trump's administration will not pursue further invest
igations of Hillary Clinton related to her
private email server or the Clinton Foundation, Trump's former campaign mana
ger Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday, a significant break from a major campaign
promise.
"I think when the President-elect, who's also the head of your party, tells
you before he's even inaugurated that he doesn't wish to pursue these charge
s, it sends a very strong message, tone, and content" to fellow Republicans,
Conway said in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
At the second presidential debate in early October, Trump threatened Clinton
, saying that "if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a
special prosecutor to look into your situation."
Conway said Clinton "still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans
don't find her to be honest or trustworthy," but added that "if Donald Trum
p can help her heal, then perhaps that's a good thing to do."
"Look, I think he's thinking of many different things as he prepares to beco
me the President of the United States, and things that sound like the campai
gn are not among them," she added.
Despite Trump breaking a campaign promise to some of the most fervent anti-C
linton supporters, Democrats also took issue with the decision as a sign of
the President-elect's executive overreach.
"That's not how this works. In our democracy, the President doesn't decide w
ho gets prosecuted and who doesn't," Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut wrote
on Twitter.