Trump said that “Clinton lives behind gates and walls and guards” and that working-class families “just want a fraction of the security enjoyed by our politicians and certainly enjoyed by her”.
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“Take their guns away, she doesn’t want guns”, he continued.
Speaking at a rally in Miami, the Republican candidate said, apparently sarcastically: “I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons”. Right? I think they should disarm immediately.
“It has tightened up because I think Martha as you know, even with your discussions with voters, we are a divided nation. Take their guns, let’s see what happens to her”, Trump said. “It’ll be very risky, he added”.
While Trump was making his comments in Florida, first lady Michelle Obama made a stop for Clinton in the commonwealth.
Clinton’s own camp denounced the statement, with Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook pointing out that Trump has shown “a pattern of inciting people to violence.”, according to The New York Times.
“We got played, again, by the Trump campaign, which is what they do”, CNN’s chief national correspondent John King said after the news channel showed live the GOP nominee for almost 20 minutes waiting for the major announcement coming from Trump.
Republican Donald Trump has acknowledged for the first time that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, reversing himself on a controversy that he helped launch but that has become a distraction to his White House bid.
Trump made a similar comment in May when he addressed a National Rifle Association conference. “We’ve expressed it differently, but you have to call out these dark emotions because if you let them pass, you actually can let them grow”, Kaine said.
“Trump has spent years peddling a racist conspiracy aimed at undermining the first African-American president”, Clinton tweeted after his event.
Trump argued Friday that he would be a staunch defender of the Second Amendment and said that Clinton would “destroy” the right to bear arms.
The Secret Service declined to comment on the remark, CNN reported.
“Hillary Clinton in her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy”.
Hours later, Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller issued a statement that suggested the question had been settled five years ago – by Trump.
Trump says he’ll “stand with the Cuban people in their fight against communist oppression”.
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The Trump camp later said he was referring to action through the ballot box, not violence.
