At a rally on Tuesday, Trump suggested gun rights activists could prevent Clinton from placing liberals on the US Supreme Court. “There has been more than one conversation”, the official said.
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After claiming that Clinton’s goal is ending Second Amendment gun rights, Trump told supporters in North Carolina on Tuesday: “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. But I’ll tell you what: that will be a disgusting day”.
After Trump’s remarks about the Second Amendment this week, his campaign released a statement titled “Trump Campaign Statement on Dishonest Media”.
Trump tweeted late Wednesday that the report was inaccurate.
Donald Trump’s suggestion that “maybe there is” something Second Amendment supporters could do to stop his Democratic rival from picking Supreme Court justices caused outrage among those who read it as an incitement to violence.
An animal rights protester is removed by members of the Secret Service after she jumped into a security buffer as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Abraham Lincoln High School, in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016.
Trump said Tuesday evening that he was simply trying to unify gun owners against Clinton in the voting booth.
But that interpretation differed even from an explanation offered later by Trump himself, who told Fox News the next day that “of course I’m being sarcastic”.
“Words matter, my friends”.
“Yesterday, we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from Donald Trump that crossed the line”, she said, citing “his casual inciting of violence”.
The Republican presidential nominee’s supporters Wednesday attempted to quell the controversy, saying either that Trump was joking or that Democrats and the media were spinning it into something bigger than it was.
“Words matter, my friends”, the former US secretary of state, who rarely engages in direct back-and-forths with her Republican rival, said at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa. About two-thirds of voters in a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll said they didn’t believe Trump has the temperament to be president – a concern that may be exacerbated by Trump’s pattern of making questionable statements, and a charge Hillary Clinton has picked up on.
Trump, a NY businessman, was seeking to reset his campaign this week with an economic policy speech after a series of missteps that included a prolonged clash with the parents of fallen Muslim American Army Captain Humayun Khan.
Mr Trump later maintained he never advocated violence and his words were twisted for political purposes. He doesn’t understand the basic requirements of being president of the United States. “This is simple – what Trump is saying is unsafe”, Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, said.
“I’m not here to take away your guns”, she said in her Democratic National Convention speech.
“In this clip, Trump’s either calling for an armed revolt or the assassination of his opponent”.
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This, in Scarborough’s view, amounts to a threat against the former secretary of state.
