“Let’s see how they feel walking around without their guns or their bodyguards”, he told the gun lobby group, speaking about Clinton and her Secret Service detail.
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“So I think that, in addition to calling for them to name judges, we’ll also call them and let their body guards immediately disarm”.
Without offering evidence, Trump accused Democratic rival Clinton of starting the birther allegations during her 2008 presidential primary campaign. “It’ll be very risky”, Mr. Trump said, stocking another controversy.
But as the Republican presidential nominee sought to put that false conspiracy theory to rest, he stoked another, claiming the “birther movement” was begun by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Trump’s Friday night comments, in view of past remarks, fit “a pattern of inciting people to violence”. And even as a presidential candidate, in January of this year, Trump refused to acknowledge the president was indeed born in Hawaii.
“No more guns to protect Hillary!”
In remarks last month, Trump falsely said Clinton wanted to “abolish” the second amendment.
Trump told the crowd of supporters that Clinton “wants to destroy your Second Amendment” and that “she goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before”.
“In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate”, Miller said.
She added that Trump’s relentless pursuit of the issue, which the GOP nominee now says is untrue, did help Trump appeal to the so-called Alt-Right wing of the Republican Party, a group that would eventually become a strong part of his base.
The controversy reignited Thursday when Trump again demurred on Obama’s citizenship, forcing his campaign into damage control.
The first lady, previously dubbed “the closer” for her effectiveness as a campaign surrogate during her husband’s presidential campaigns, was at one point interrupted by chants of “four more years” as she talked about the bittersweet feelings she is experiencing as her husband’s final term in office draws to a close.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”, Trump said.
The latest comments came just hours after Mr Trump was forced to reverse his long-held position that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. “All the Second Amendment people – maybe there is”.
A few years into his presidency, Obama, the first African American to win the White House, released a longer version of his birth certificate to answer those who suggested he was not USA born.
Meyers also said that due to double standards, the rules are different for Clinton and Donald Trump.
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President Barack Obama has been moving to normalise diplomatic relations with the island nation that soured more than five decades ago during the Cold War, which effectively ended most forms of American investment.
