--- title: Donald Trump Calls for Hillary Clinton to Go to Jail description: Donald Trump hit back at Hillary Clinton on Thursday night, casting as "pathetic" the scathing speech she delivered against him earlier canonical: https://time.com/4356296/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-jail-speech/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-03T14:11:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:06.709Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Calls for Hillary Clinton to Be Jailed og:description: His criticism followed a scathing speech she delivered about him og:url: https://time.com/4356296/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-jail-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04ee378b1397f8b6/69889637196cf45b2e03bde7/donald-trump-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4455 og:image:height: 2506 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-VOTE-TRUMP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Calls for Hillary Clinton to Be Jailed twitter:description: His criticism followed a scathing speech she delivered about him twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04ee378b1397f8b6/69889637196cf45b2e03bde7/donald-trump-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Calls for Hillary Clinton to Be Jailed > Sponsored content. 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Josh Edelson—AFP/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 3, 2016 2:11 PM UTC Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hit back at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Thursday night, casting as “pathetic” the [scathing speech she delivered](http://time.com/4355791/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-temperament/) against him earlier in the day. “After what she said about me today in her phony speech — that was a phony speech, that was a Donald Trump hit job — I will say this, Hillary Clinton has to go to jail,” he said at a rally in San Jose, California, referring to Clinton’s use of a [private email server](http://time.com/4276988/jim-comey-hillary-clinton/) as secretary of state. “She’s guilty as hell.” During her speech, Clinton denounced Trump’s ideas as “dangerously incoherent” and called him “temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility.” **Read more:** [_Read Hillary Clinton’s Speech on Donald Trump and National Security_](http://time.com/4355797/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-transcript/) At his own rally, Trump returned her criticism of his temperament and lamented the national security speech as boring. “It was pathetic. It was so sad to watch,” he said. “I think she could make more money if she made speeches and sold them for people that can’t sleep.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4356296/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-jail-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4356296/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-jail-speech/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Calls for Hillary Clinton to Be Jailed","datePublished":"2016-06-03T14:11:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:06.709Z","description":"His criticism followed a scathing speech she delivered about him","url":"https://time.com/4356296/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-jail-speech/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04ee378b1397f8b6/69889637196cf45b2e03bde7/donald-trump-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04ee378b1397f8b6/69889637196cf45b2e03bde7/donald-trump-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-VOTE-TRUMP","caption":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a rally at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. on June 2, 2016.","creditText":"Josh Edelson—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4356296/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-jail-speech/","name":"Donald Trump Calls for Hillary Clinton to Be Jailed"}}]}] ```