The comment was taken by many people as implying that one way to stop Hillary would be to assassinate her. It showed that 44 percent felt Trump should exit the race.
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But don’t let him or anyone defending him get away with saying this was a generic encouragement to his supporters to organize and vote without explaining why it’s something that only “Second Amendment people” can do, and why the something is set after Clinton is in a position to “pick her judges”.
Clinton publicly condemned Trump’s remarks as promoting violence.
The Republican nominee suggested her liberal nominations would threaten gun ownership rights when he said: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment”.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks”, he said.
Trump’s shocking statement was blasted as “dangerous” by members of both political parties and has added to the constant stream of Republicans who have said in recent days they will not support their party’s nominee in November.
Trump’s senior communications advisor, Jason Miller, quickly issued a statement on the “dishonest media” and their attempts to characterize the comments as an off-color assassination joke. “What he intended is very, very simple, that [gun owners] should vote against her”, the former NYC mayor told Good Morning America.
“Give me a break”, Trump said hours later, insisting he was referring to the power that voters hold.
Trump has clearly roiled the party with his unorthodox campaign remarks, with Republicans frustrated at his apparent inability to stay on message even as he unveiled his revamped economic plan on Monday. That way we’ll know for sure.
The figures underscored deep divisions within the Republican Party over Trump’s candidacy.
So honestly, at this point, it’s starting to seem more and more like Donald Trump is just doing everything and anything he can think of to get out of actually having to be president. She then noted her growing list of Republican supporters, saying they were backing her “not as Republicans, but as Americans”.
Perhaps surprisingly, in making his comments Trump appeared to to ignore what might have created a bad news cycle for his opponent, after the father of Florida shooting suspect Omar Mateen turned up unauthorized in the audience of a Hillary Clinton rally the same day.
“This can not be treated as just another outrageous moment in the campaign”, Rather said.
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Clinton’s campaign is also releasing new endorsements from several retired Republican officials, including former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Carla Hills, former Maryland Congresswoman Connie Morella, former Connecticut Congressman Chris Shays and former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte.
