Minutes later the Trump campaign had issued a statement saying that Trump meant people who support the Second Amendment are unified and will vote together.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan said that “it sounds like” GOP nominee Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about “Second Amendment people” stopping Hillary Clinton was simply a “joke gone bad”.
Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who supports Trump, called the remark “imprudent” but then called out media and commentators who interpreted it as violence for supposedly imagining their own version of what Trump said.
“This is simple – what Trump is saying is risky”, campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement.
The anti-Trump folks said his comment was a call to violence against Clinton, tapping that unfortunate stereotype that every pro-gun person secretly wants to shoot those with whom they disagree. I hope he clears it up very quickly. She wants to leave you unprotected in your home.
“Well, I just heard about that and it was unbelievable because nobody in that room thought anything other than what you just said”, Trump answered, immediately taking the out.
Democratic lawmakers also expressed shock about Trump’s comments.
“They will buy any line, any distortion, and spin that the Clintons put out”, said former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, an ardent Trump supporter.
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment”, he said, referring to the piece of legislation that gun rights activists claim gives them the right to bear weapons.
Jon Voight has backed Donald Trump after the US presidential nominee was accused of hinting at the assassination of Hillary Clinton.
It was the latest in a long string of Trump trip-ups, including a long-running clash with the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed in action, that have marred his campaign since he officially won the Republican nomination last month and prompted several Republicans to reject his candidacy. “You shouldn’t joke about something like that”. “I haven’t even read it. If any other citizen had said this about a Presidential candidate, would the Secret Service be investigating?”
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The security force said it was “aware of the comments made earlier this afternoon”, a quote many believed was in direct response to Trump’s arguably most outrage declaration to date. “We will find far better receptivity of our agenda that we’re trying get on track to fix this country’s problems than a Hillary Clinton administration”.
