Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump has caused controversy by hinting Hillary Clinton could be assassinated if her secret service detail was disarmed. “Maybe not!” Trump tweeted.
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At a rally on Friday night, Trump said: “I think that her body guards should drop all weapons”. “What do you think, yes?” he asked the crowd. Yeah. Take their guns away.
“Crooked Hillary wants to get rid of all guns and yet she is surrounded by bodyguards who are fully armed”, Trump had reportedly written in the post. “Let’s see what happens to her”. “It would be very risky”, Trump said in Miami.
The Republican nominee seems to have a thing for allusions to gun violence. Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, released a statement saying Trump “has a pattern of inciting people to violence”.
At a rally Friday, the GOP nominee said that because of Clinton’s support for some gun control measures, her Secret Service bodyguards shouldn’t have guns.
Trump then moved on to Clinton’s personal security. The Secret Service is part of the federal government and protects presidential and vice presidential candidates in both parties, as well as their families, and visiting heads of state.
Trump had previously joked about forcing Clinton’s bodyguards to give up their firearms, but hadn’t invoked a possible attack so overtly.
Friday’s comments came just hours after Trump, who for years had questioned Barack Obama’s nationality as part of the “birther” movement, acknowledged for the first time that the president was a native-born USA citizen.
Vice presidential candidate Mike Pence on Sunday stood squarely behind his running mate, Donald Trump, doubling down on Trump’s assertion that birtherism traces back to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
“They talk all the time about racist, racist – the only word they know”, he said.
Only one thing got the crowd more engaged than Cuba: Mr. Trump’s familiar promise to build a wall on the USA border with Mexico.
He added that the people of Venezuela “are yearning to be free, they are yearning for help. You remember, let’s all remember that a few years ago Donald Trump was the leader of the so-called birther movement”. “I’m not great at taking it easy under even normal circumstances, but with just two months until Election Day, sitting at home was pretty much the last place I wanted to be”. “It’s love”, he said.
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CNN and other major TV stations did not broadcast Trump’s rally as they often do, suggesting the United States media is heeding widespread criticism that it devotes too much attention to the Republican candidate.
