During the debate, Hillary Clinton criticized Donald Trump saying, “It’s awfully good that someone with the tempermant of Donald Trump isn’t in charge of law in this country”.

Trump responded, “Because you’d be in jail”.

It earned the biggest cheer of the night from the people in the audience and an immediate caution from Anderson Cooper not to be cheering or making noise during the debate.

But it was immediately spun by media as a ‘dictatorial’ move by Trump, planning to jail a ‘political opponent’. Stunningly, media and prominent Democrats seemed to have the same talking point, down to the similar language. One has to think the memo went out…

What’s missing of course in this clueless pundit reaction, is why the people cheered and what Trump was saying: that in a country where the rule of law mattered, where it wasn’t Obama in charge, yes, given the crimes you committed you would be in jail. That the comment wasn’t attacking democracy or the rule of law, but talking about how Clinton (and the Obama regime) have basically eviscerated it.

Of course, they also left out Trump saying he would “appoint a special prosecutor to investigate”. Not throw her in jail without due process, as they claimed.

They appear to have forgotten about how the maker of a video was thrown in jail to serve Hillary’s point that a video was the cause of the Benghazi attack. Or the ‘pen and the phone’ of Obama and the lawless operation by executive orders.

The cheer wasn’t about ‘dictatorship’, but the desire to return to the rule of law that has fallen fallow under the reign of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.