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In a statement to reporters on Friday, President Donald Trump expressed his hope for an investigation into potential election fraud by former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Before heading to New Jersey, Trump responded to a question from a reporter about the possibility of investigating Hillary Clinton for election fraud.
Trump replied, “I hope so, I hope so. I don’t know if it will happen, but I hope so.”
During his brief interaction with reporters outside the White House, Trump also criticized former Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, whom he recently dismissed. The president linked his decision to fire McEntarfer, whom he accused of manipulating jobs report numbers, to attempts to influence past elections against him.
President Donald Trump expressed hope for an investigation into potential election fraud by former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images and AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
“You have to have honest reports and when you look at those numbers or when you look at just before the election and then after the election, they corrected it by 8 or 900,000 jobs,” he said.
“Why should anybody trust numbers? You go back to election day. Look what happened two or three days before with massive, wonderful jobs numbers, trying to get him elected or her elected, trying to get whoever the hell was running because you go back and they came out with numbers that were very favorable to Kamala,” he continued. “And then on the 15th of November or thereabouts, they added 8 or 900,000 overstatement reduction right after the election.”
Addressing a reporter directly, Trump added, “It didn’t work, because, you know who won, John? I won.”
Trump’s comments regarding Clinton date back to his first presidential campaign, during which he vowed to investigate her if he became president. In one of the 2016 debates, Trump famously stated to Clinton that if he were president, “you’d be in jail.”
President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd during his speech at CPAC in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
However, as president, Trump has not taken steps to prosecute Clinton, who served as former President Barack Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
In July, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released evidence suggesting that the Obama administration pushed a false narrative of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“There is irrefutable evidence detailing how President Obama and his national security team orchestrated the creation of a false intelligence community assessment,” Gabbard stated. “They knew it would promote a contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, presenting it as truth to the American people. It wasn’t.”
“We have referred and will continue to refer all of these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI for investigation of the criminal implications,” Gabbard added. “The evidence we have uncovered points directly to President Obama leading the fabrication of this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces of evidence and intelligence confirming that fact.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard addresses reporters at the White House on July 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In a July interview, Trump described the allegations against Obama and his administration as “serious treason.”
“What they’ve done is so bad for this country. And it really started right at the 2016 election,” Trump remarked on Gabbard’s findings. “And there’s a difference when you know it — and when you know it, and it’s all written down for you. I mean, it’s all there. It’s right there. The orders, the memos, the whole thing. It’s right there.”
Contributions to this report were made by Fox News Digital’s Diana Stancy and Hanna Panreck.
