“I think what we should do is, she goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before”, the GOP nominee said, deviating from his prepared remarks on the teleprompter.
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The Republican presidential candidate told his supporters that Clinton intends to “destroy your second amendment”.
But there was blowback on Saturday after the Republican nominee made another ad-libbed reference to violence and reignited controversy with a popular sitting president. Take their guns away.
“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. “Let’s see what happens to her”, he added. “Okay, it would be very risky”.
Penn did write a memo in 2007 saying that Obama’s foreign background could present a weakness for him, and Clinton should emphasize her middle-class Midwestern upbringing.
The organization said there is also no “direct tie” to the campaign and Clinton has denied being behind the rumors.
But Mr Trump also falsely accused Hillary Clinton’s team of starting the so-called “birther” campaign in 2008. Trump said he meant gun owners should vote against her, not try to kill her. “I finished it”, Trump said.
Nancy Albano, president of the Highland Beach Coastal Democratic Club, said she thinks Trump was serious about his comments and nearly appeared to dare someone to try to harm Clinton.
Obama joked about the “birther” issue long promoted and now dismissed by Trump, telling his audience that there’s an extra spring in his step now that the “whole birther thing is over”.
In fact, Trump repeatedly continued to question Obama’s birth in the years after the president released his birth certificate.
Trump publicly acknowledged for the first time on Friday that President Barack Obama was born in this country, seeking to quell the controversy that he ignited in March 2011. The President made his first solo appeal this week, appearing at a campaign rally in Philadelphia and phoning in to African-American radio to talk up Clinton.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”, Trump said Friday morning in Washington.
Later in the night, Clinton’s Campaign Manager Robby Mook issued a statement.
“I’ll answer that question at the right time”, he said. Clinton tweeted, “Donald Trump still refuses to say @POTUS was born in America”.
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.
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As for President Obama’s opinion on this, he dismissed Donald Trump’s criticism, saying to reporters, jokingly, that he was “pretty confident about where he was born”.
