WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald Trump, after a campaign marked by a vow to put Democrat Hillary Clinton "in jail," declared Tuesday that "I don't want to hurt the Clintons," and a top adviser said he had no interest in pursuing further investigations of Clinton. In the meantime they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!”

Eileen M Murphy, the newspaper’s senior vice-president for communications, said: “We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to.”

She said Mr Trump’s aides tried to alter the conditions, asking for a private meeting only, with nothing on the record, “which we refused to agree to”. The change in stance came as Mr Trump abruptly cancelled a meeting with the New York Times, accusing the organisation of changing the conditions for the session “at the last moment”. Conway suggested that Trump's new posture is aimed at Republicans in Congress who have relentlessly investigated the former secretary of state, including whether classified information passed through her private email server and how she acted in connection with the raid on the U.S. compound in Benghazi that killed four Americans. But Trump proclaimed that Clinton was “guilty as hell,” and his rallies were constantly interrupted by chants of “Lock her up!”

But Trump started to back off the pledge to investigate Clinton after he won the election.
Trump's aide Kellyanne Conway announces that the president-elect will not seek new charges against Hillary Clinton for possible crimes related to her email server.