According to Politico, even supporters of the right to bear arms were wary of Trump’s remarks.
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“I have become increasingly dismayed by his constant stream of cruel comments and his inability to admit error or apologise”, Ms Collins wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.
While the content of that tweet is on the same vagueness level as, “Worst day ever”, there is speculation that the Secret Service could be referring to Donald Trump’s comments earlier Tuesday about Hillary Clinton.
Shortly after Trump made the Second Amendment comment, former CIA Director Michael Hayden slammed the billionaire businessman in an interview on CNN, saying if anyone else delivered such remarks, they would be in a “police wagon”.
Clinton quickly dismissed Trump’s proposal, which would reduce to three the number of income tax brackets and cut corporate taxes to 15 percent.
The officials, including former Department of Homeland Security chiefs Michael Chertoff and Tom Ridge, warn that Trump “would be the most reckless president in American history”.
“I saw it, I heard it, I know what it meant”, Giuliani said.
The two candidates are headed toward a trio of televised showdowns.
Trump’s comments came a few weeks after one of his campaign advisers said “Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason”.
Meanwhile, Clinton was hunting for votes in Florida, with a stop in Miami. She planned to tour a Miami health clinic Tuesday to discuss the Zika virus before holding fundraisers in the evening. The respected fact-checking site Politifact has reviewed many of Trump’s claims and found that only 15% are “true” or “mostly true”. A video of the rally shows a man seated behind Trump open his mouth in disbelief and turn to his companion with a puzzled look on his face after Trump made the remark.
Debates and tax policy were just a few areas where the White House hopefuls were trading accusations.
It was the latest in a long string of Mr Trump trip-ups – including his clash with the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in action – that have marred his campaign since he officially won the nomination last month, and prompted several Republicans to reject his candidacy. John McCain. When he was running for president McCain faced a questioner who insisted then-candidate Barack Obama was an “Arab” and therefore not to be trusted. But Trump suggested Tuesday there will be no dramatic change of strategy.
Until this month, the only known Zika cases in the United States were in people who had recently traveled to Latin America or the Caribbean.
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Nick Merrill, a Clinton campaign spokesman, said in response to the suit: “While no one can imagine the pain of the families of the courageous Americans we lost at Benghazi, there have been nine different investigations into this attack and none found any evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing on the part of Hillary Clinton”.
