‘Lock her up’ chants break out at CPAC

Chants of “lock her up” erupted at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday after a speaker mentioned former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

“She’s already in a jail of her own making somewhere in the woods in upstate New York,” conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said in response to the chants.

The “lock her up” chant was frequently heard at President Trump’s rallies throughout the 2016 presidential campaign and became something of a rallying cry for some of his supporters.

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Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, then serving as a surrogate for the GOP candidate’s campaign, joined the crowd at the Republican National Convention in 2016 calling to “lock her up.”

“Lock her up, that’s right,” Flynn said. “If I did a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail today.” 

The chants have also taken place at rallies that Trump has held since becoming president.

Trump memorably told a crowd at a campaign rally last year that they’d have to “speak to [Attorney General] Jeff Sessions” after the crowd chanted “lock her up” in response to a reference to Clinton. 

During the 2016 campaign, Trump called for a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton’s use of a private email server when she served as secretary of State, telling her during a debate that she “would be in jail” if he was president.