The dinner comes a day after Trump reversed himself on his long-held and false view that Obama was not born in the United States.
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Donald Trump on Friday called for disarming the bodyguards who protect his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and mused about the consequences of such a move by saying “Let’s see what happens to her”.
“She goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before”.
“I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons”, Trump said. They should disarm. Right?
Last month, critics called Trump reckless and risky for telling a North Carolina crowd there was nothing they could do about Clinton naming judges if she’s elected, “although the 2nd Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know”. “Immediately, what do you think?” He said only gun holders can stop Clinton from stripping away their rights. Immediately. She doesn’t want guns.let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away, okay? “It’ll be very unsafe”. “Take their guns away, she doesn’t want guns”.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Trump’s comments in Miami fit a disturbing pattern of encouraging violence. Black voters reacted skeptically on Friday to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s public admission that he now believes the nation’s first black president was indeed born in the United States. Photo caption: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the James L. Knight Center, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Miami.
A CNN poll this week has Trump ahead of Clinton by some measures, including in the contested state of Ohio. “If Trump is being less outrageous and less titillating, it means that Hillary Clinton has a better chance to get her own message through and have the election litigated on her own terms”. When the crowd booed, the GOP standard-bearer sarcastically added, “Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I don’t know”.
Addressing the Congressional Black Caucus gala for the last time as president, Obama warned that while his name would not be on the ballot in November, all of the progress that the country has made over the last eight years were on the line.
“Obama was able to pull them out in 2008, and to a lesser extent in 2012, and they voted for Democrats down the ticket, but they’re much less likely to vote this time around with Clinton at the top of the ticket”, he said.
Trump also said the US has a broader obligation to stand with oppressed people – a comment that seems at odds with his “America first” mantra.
The gala featuring almost four dozen black members of Congress underscored Clinton’s need for a large turnout of black voters against Trump.
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Mr Trump had just completed a few days of relative discipline – he resisted the temptation, for instance, to denigrate Ms Clinton for taking days off the trail to recover from pneumonia – that many observers had put down to the influence of his new campaign chief, Kellyanne Conway.
