Durbin likens Trump to 'banana republic' leader

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said Monday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump showed he doesn’t understand “what this country is really all about” by using a debate stage to talk of sending Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to prison.

“Throwing your opponent in jail is what you do in a banana republic,” Durbin, a Springfield Democrat, told reporters before walking to the Sangamon County Complex to cast an early vote in the Nov. 8 election.

At the presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis Sunday, Trump said that if elected, he would instruct his attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to further probe issues regarding Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.

“It’s just a good thing that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Clinton said.

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