Donald Trump invoked the possibility of a violent assault on Hillary Clinton once again on Saturday, a day after he suggested that her Secret Service bodyguards disarm and “let’s see what happens”. In Miami on Friday, his riff about confiscating agents’ guns went further. They should disarm. Right?
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“Take their guns away, she doesn’t want guns”, he continued. “She doesn’t want guns … let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away, OK? Okay. It will be very risky”, he added. He was also an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2008.
Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, reportedly said that such remarks “should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate”.
On Friday, Trump ignored reporters’ questions about his abrupt change in stance this week over the place of President Obama’s birth.
No one from the campaign nor the Republican Party - nor the Secret Service, for that matter - has commented on the remark. At a political event in Wilmington, North Carolina in August, Trump spoke to a crowd of supporters about Clinton’s possible choices for Supreme Court judges who might lean towards stricter gun control.
Regarding Clinton, Huckabee said that the Democrat should have been more forthcoming about her illness with voters.
Trump’s latest remarks have been widely condemned. Mook said then, “A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way”.
Her supporters also denounced his comment, saying it alludes to violence against the female nominee. If anything he’s appeared to condone it. “I finished it”, Trump said.
In several rallies in recent months, Trump has said blacks live in crime-ridden communities and can’t walk down the street without getting shot.
“We have some protesters who are bad dudes, they have done bad things”. It was not before 20 minutes that the news networks apparently realised that they have been taken for a ride once again.
In a more lighthearted mood, Obama said there is more pep in his step now that the validity of his birth certificate is a non-issue, following Trump’s admission Friday that Obama was born in the USA after years of says the president, who was born in Hawaii, was likely not born in the U.S.
The New York businessman’s admission came hours after his campaign spokesman released a statement saying Mr Trump now believed Mr Obama was born in the US.
There is no evidence to link Mrs Clinton to the birthers.
Clinton’s campaign did not immediately respond to Complex’s request for comment.
Some of his demands to Cuban President Raul Castro, he said, will include religious and political freedom for Cubans.
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“If you care about our legacy, realize everything we stand for is at stake”, Obama, the nation’s first African American president, said in an address to an annual dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
