So Hillary essentially wants to abolish the Second Amendment.
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Trump did not elaborate on his meaning.
Some who attended Trump’s rally argued that Trump was not trying to incite violence with his comments.
Trump’s campaign sought to quell the controversy with a statement that blamed the “dishonest media” for misinterpretation.
And Keri Malkin, 49, said she didn’t “hear it that way at all”, suggesting the insinuation that the comment was a threat against Clinton was engineered by her supporters. Nearly immediately, the pro-Clinton superPAC Priorities USA Action e-mailed out a clip of Trump’s comments with the subject heading, “Donald Trump Just Suggested That Someone Shoot Hillary Clinton”, plus a one-sentence message: “THIS IS NOT OK”. After all, we live in an extremely perilous world and Donald Trump’s tendency to lash out at foes, whether they’re real or imagined, could produce a very unsettling effect, in which an global event spins dangerously out of control.
“It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment people have incredible spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”, the statement read. Seddique Mateen was standing in a crowd behind Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, during a campaign event Monday night, August 8, 2016, in Kissimmee, south of Orlando. She declined to answer any additional questions about Trump’s remarks. A senior Clinton policy adviser said in May that she favours taking steps at the federal level to keep guns out of the hands of criminals while protecting the Second Amendment.
A comment by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Tuesday is going viral, but not in a good way. “Although the 2nd Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”. His spokeswoman did not immediately reply to a request for a clarification of his remarks.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat and a leading advocate for stronger gun safety laws, called Trump’s comments “disgusting and embarrassing and sad”. “Unstable people with powerful guns and an unhinged hatred for Hillary are listening to you”. Polls suggest Clinton has widened her national lead over Trump and positioned herself to compete even in some traditionally GOP-leaning states.
In the ad, a narrator says she is “one of the wealthiest women in politics” with a “combined income of $30 million”.
But on Monday night, Hillary Clinton’s camp accepted the debates and challenged Trump to do the same.
The second read: “But there IS something we will do on #ElectionDay: Show up and vote for the #2A!” A campaign official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he wasn’t invited to attend the 3,000-person, open-door public event and that the campaign wasn’t aware he was there until it ended.
However, donors to candidates considered to be outside the Republican establishment were far more likely to give to Trump.
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The NRA declared that Trump was right, while former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe insisted this was clearly an assassination threat.
