In a withering editorial for the Washington post, MSNBC breakfast television host Joe Scarborough has called upon the Republican party, of which he is a member, to remove Donald Trump as its presidential nominee, calling Trump’s implication that his supporters should take the second amendment into their own hands in response to Hillary Clinton’s possible election “a bloody line” to cross.
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“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment”, Trump said to boos from the crowd.
The Republican nominee shot back at the USA broadcaster Wednesday, tweeting “No such meeting or conversation ever happened – a made up story by “low ratings” @CNN”.
“Words matter, my friends”, former Secretary of State Clinton said at a rally on Wednesday in Des Moines, Iowa.
Vickers told CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin that he believed Trump’s comments were said sarcastically but easily misconstrued by the liberal media.
A Secret Service official confirmed to the news network that the agency has had “multiple” conversations with Trump’s campaign about his comments.
He then said that there was nothing people could do to stop Mrs Clinton from stacking the Supreme Court with anti-gun justices, before stating vaguely that “although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is – I don’t know”.
“There is tremendous political power to save the Second Amendment, tremendous”, Trump told Fox on Wednesday, a day when the high-rise he calls home was scaled in NY.
The problem with that explanation is that in his comment Trump was talking about what could happen after Clinton was elected president, not before. “But I tell you what, that will be a disgusting day, if Hillary gets to put her judges in, right now we’re tied”.
“This is a political movement”.
Daniel Lippman, a reporter with Politico, says Trump’s remarks did not seem like a joke, but rather a clumsy attempt to play to a group of gun supporters. “And there can be no other interpretation.I mean, give me a break”.
The Republican Party attempted to do some damage control to quell the controversy. Trump blamed the media for twisting his words, saying that he was simply trying to unify gun owners against Clinton in the race for the White House.
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Trump’s Republican supporters have downplayed the remarks, suggesting he was joking, or that left-leaning media outlets have intentionally inflated the story.
