“By the way, and if she gets to pick – if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”. He then added, “although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is”.
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The US constitution’s second amendment allows American citizens to bear arms.
Clinton supporters immediately seized on Trump’s remarks to warn that Trump had crossed a grave line in political discourse.
Here are Trump’s remarks – which are actually quite brief – in their full context.
Still the Clinton campaign has incentive to talk up efforts in those states.
“A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way”, it said.
The GOP candidate’s distortion of Clinton’s position on the Second Amendment and his comments Tuesday prove “how risky Trump really is”, said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.
The Republican presidential nominee made the comment Tuesday at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.
“What he meant was, you have the power to vote against her”, Giuliani said.
“By the way, and if she gets to pick – if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”.
“Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the US because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails”, he tweeted Monday night.
The group, some of whom had already announced they would not vote for Trump, included former homeland security chiefs, intelligence directors, senior presidential advisors and a former United States trade representative.
“The remarks came in the context of Trump warning that a Clinton presidency would alter the balance of the Supreme Court in liberals” favor. “You are responsible for what people hear”.
Trump has planted himself firmly on the side of gun owners with a “law and order” campaign.
Meanwhile, Relatives of two men killed in the 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya have filed a lawsuit blaming the deaths on Hillary Clinton’s “reckless” handling of classified information in her private email server.
The Clinton campaign has challenged Trump when in the past he has accused her of planning to abolish the Second Amendment if elected president. Clinton supports some new restrictions on gun ownership, but has not advocated overturning the amendment.
Donald Trump has vowed to tackle trade issues between the USA and ChinaPerhaps the most searing indictment of Trump’s campaign so far, the letter was printed in the New York Times on Monday.
The uproar comes a day after Trump tried to refocus his campaign with a tightly scripted speech on his economic policies.
Mike Pence, Trump’s running mate, vehemently denied that Trump was encouraging violence.
“Don’t treat this as a political misstep”.
Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Murphy took to Twitter, calling Trump’s statements an “assassination threat”.
An anti-Trump super PAC “Democratic Coalition Against Trump” said the FBI should investigate the Republican nominee. So she’s spending more than $13 million on political ads at the Olympics – while Donald Trump is sitting on the sidelines.
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The 50 prominent national security officials said in their letter on Monday that Trump would be “the most reckless president in American history”.
