Same old bait and switch backtracking bullshit.

In 2016, Trump felt it necessary to distance himself from the “lock her up” chants favored by his crowds. Asked about the chant by a reporter in July 2016, Trump insisted he had never encouraged it:

I said, “Don’t do that.” Now, I didn’t do that for any reason. I really — I didn’t like it. And they stopped. Not one reporter said that I said that. They all said — they started screaming, “Lock her up! Lock her up.” I said, “Don’t do that.” Nobody reported that I said that, because it’s dishonest reporting.

He said the same damned thing about "lock her up".