He had also slammed her for accepting armed Secret Service protection while backing gun control measures in the country.
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“I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons”, Trump reportedly said amid loud applause. They should disarm, right? “Take their guns away, OK?”
“Take their guns away, OK? It’ll be very risky”.
The Trump campaign at the time responded with their own statement, saying Trump was referring to “the power of unification” and calling upon the voting power of “2nd Amendment people”, according to senior communications advisor Jason Miller.
“She goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before”.
“In his more stable moments, Mr. Trump has said he regrets some of the ugly insults and unsafe threats he has leveled during the course of this campaign”, Giffords and Kelly said in their statement.
Robby Mook, a spokesman for Mrs Clinton, said: “Whether this is done to provoke protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an unacceptable quality in anyone seeking the job of Commander in Chief”.
After doubting Ms Clinton’s stamina and ability to stand and campaign in a hot, crowded room earlier this week, Mr Trump launched similar attacks on Friday, saying the president needs to balance different responsibilities.
A spokeswoman for the Secret Service declined to comment.
And yet Trump continues to make ridiculous comments like that again, and again, and again.
“Hillary wants to abolish – essentially abolish the Second Amendment”.
He continued: “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks”.
“Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is”.
The billionaire accused his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of starting the controversy surrounding the president’s birthplace in her 2008 campaign when she and Obama were rivals. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States”.
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. Friday marked the first time he said in no uncertain terms Obama was USA born, but he left without taking questions and did not explain how or when he’d come to that conclusion.
Trump ignored questions from reporters about his switch and has yet to explain why he abandoned the “birther” stance that fueled his political fame and was viewed by critics as an attempt to delegitimize the nation’s first African-American president.
Among those, he said, would be religious and political freedom for the Cuban people and the freeing of all political prisoners.
The GOP nominee previously said he was “fine” with the Obama administration’s decision to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba, though he was critical of the deal that was made and stressed the need for a better one.
Trump promised to help the “oppressed” Venezuelans and to repeal Obamacare. “But the people are great”.
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“We call on him to immediately renounce these comments, apologize to Hillary Clinton, and acknowledge that once again he has gone dangerously too far”.
