Donald Trump said the bodyguards assigned to his rival Hillary Clinton should “disarm immediately” and “see what happens”. “It’ll be very risky”, the New York Times quoted the Manhattan billionaire as saying.
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Mrs Obama vouched repeatedly for Mrs Clinton’s character, urging voters motivated by her husband’s history-making campaigns to feel the same way about the first woman nominated for president by a major USA party.
Presumably, the bodyguards Trump refers to are her Secret Service detail.
At that time, Trump said: “Hillary wants to abolish – essentially abolish the Second Amendment”. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”, he said at a widely covered news conference.
Clinton’s camp condemned Trump for “inciting people to violence”.
“Mr. Trump did a great service to the president and the country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton and her team first raised”, he added. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is.
After years of fueling conspiracy theories, Republican White House nominee Donald Trump admitted Friday that President Barack Obama is an American as he tried to neutralize damaging charges of racism.
He 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”.
Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, called the Republican candidate’s comment “out of bounds” in a statement Friday, and said Trump “has a pattern of inciting people to violence”.
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.
Trump’s reversal comes as he works to win over African-American voters, many of whom have been turned off by his attempt to delegitimize the nation’s first black president.
Trump’s campaign said their candidate was not calling for violence against his rival.
Some of his demands to Cuban President Raul Castro, he said, will include religious and political freedom for Cubans.
The comment marks yet another reversal for the GOP candidate, who previously said he supported the idea of normalized relations, but wished the US had negotiated a better deal.
The first-time candidate has 50 percent support in the state, compared to 46 percent for Clinton.
Trump promised to help the “oppressed” Venezuelans and to repeal Obamacare. The system is bad.
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Poll also show Trump – who has been a bit more disciplined since shuffling his top advisers in August – taking the lead in OH and Florida, two key battleground states, while gaining in others.
