Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a Trump critic who’s skipping the GOP convention, tweeted that Republicans “can make the case that she shouldn’t be elected without jumping the shark”. Added Baldasaro: “I believe Hillary Clinton committed treason”.
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Baldasaro, a Republican from Londonderry, N.H., is a former Marine who calls himself Trump’s “veteran advisor”. Chris Christie presented indictments of Clinton on everything from Libya to her private e-mail server. “Guilty!” and “Lock her up!” the crowd screamed back.
“Of the 25 speeches Tuesday, fully 19 were anti-Hillary”. “We can’t let Donald Trump’s hateful words speak for us”. “We need a businessman, not a Hillary-crat”, small businesswoman Michelle Van Etten said. The thought is mildly terrifying, and even if the inflammatory rhetoric doesn’t encourage violence, it will so poison the political waters that Clinton will be viewed by a good portion of the country as fundamentally illegitimate. Given the number of wingnuts, weirdos and wackos outside the convention centre, the misogyny and malice directed at Clinton, expressed in but tons, stickers, and t-shirts calling her a “bitch” and seeking to send her to jail, is par for course.
Christie’s attacks on Clinton’s ethics also left him open for counterpunches from Democrats, who were quick to cite the scandal in response.
Baldasaro made national news two months ago when he stood behind Trump at a news conference at Trump Tower in New York City, where the candidate pushed back against reporters’ questions regarding money Trump said he raised for veterans.
Rep. Al Baldasaro (R-NH) – a veterans issue adviser to Donald Trump – said that Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “should be put in the firing line and shot for treason”.
U.S. Secret Service investigators said they are looking into the incident.
The reports also showed that Trump converted the almost $50 million in loans he made to his campaign into donations.
“If she was found guilty (of treason) in a court of law, that’s what would happen”, Baldasaro told the Daily News, referring to his previous comment about Clinton being killed by gunfire.
Sharon Schulman, executive director of the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University, agreed that Christie played to his strengths and likely succeeded in rallying Republicans. “I think there’s a great deal of animosity, politically, and I don’t see what that brings you in terms of credibility in Congress”. In a July CNN poll, 34 percent of respondents said Clinton was honest and trustworthy. That was down significantly from 55 percent in March 2014. “Not now, not ever”.
“Donald Trump needs a more cohesive party”, she said.
“If you closed your eyes, you could imagine it being a lot like a witch trial – they were barely one step removed from screaming ‘burn her at the stake, ‘” Clinton’s campaign said in a fundraising email.
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Not all Republican delegates are excited by the Clinton bashing. I just ask that you show me the same respect and not attack me for voting mine. “They do it and they think, ‘What have I done?’ It ruins their lives”.
