Some interpreted his comments as a dark suggestion that gun owners could take up arms against Mrs Clinton, while others said they were at the very least irresponsible remarks that could have violent consequences.
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The former CBS Evening News anchor ripped the Republican presidential candidate for statements Trump made about “Second Amendment people” stopping Hillary Clinton.
“By the way, and if she gets to pick – if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”, Trump warned. ‘Although the Second Amendment people… He doesn’t understand the basic requirements of being president of the United States.
“It’s called the power of unification – Second Amendment people have wonderful spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power”.
Additionally, the ex-official said they would seek help from a US attorney to check out whether Trump’s comments would be worth pursuing legally.
First, he falsely claimed that Mrs Clinton wanted to “essentially abolish the Second Amendment”.
“This is a political movement”, Mr. Trump said in an interview with FOX News afterward.
Donald Trump is incapable of being careful.
Trump’s campaign also insisted that his words had been misunderstood.
In the conversations, Trump or campaign aides denied any threat of violence against Clinton, CNN quoted a Secret Service official as saying. Trump then cited his support from the National Rifle Association in his defense, and pointing to unnamed “reporters” who allegedly support him, telling critics “give me a break”.
Many pundits drew a link between the Service’s intervention and Trump’s comment, with one branding it “stunning”.
Senator Chris Murphy in a series of tweets alleged that Trump had given an assassination threat to Clinton.
“Trump must go: Hinting at assassination is too much, even for him”, they write, under the front page calling for Trump to quit the race and if he won’t, for Republicans to abandon him “for toying with political bloodshed”.
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She spent Tuesday in Florida calling for emergency public health action on the Zika virus while visiting the Miami area dealing with the first U.S. outbreak.
